Thinking in Sound: The Cognitive Psychology of Human Audition

by Stephen McAdams, Emmanuel Bigand

Overview

The realm of auditory cognition is increasingly being recognized as an important new area of psychological and musicological research, however until now no single work has presented the subject in a comprehensive manner for the benefit of researchers and students. To rectify this situation a special tutorial workshop organized by the French Acoustical Society was held at IRCAM, the music research institute founded by Pierre Boulez. Specialists in perceptual organization, memory, attention, music psychology, neurospsychology, and developmental psychology were invited from Europe and North America. This volume presents the materials from their lectures. The book will be useful to advanced students in the cognitive sciences and scientists specializing in many fields as well as in auditory psychology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198522577
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	05/06/1993
Series:	Cognitive Psychology of Human Audition
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Universite Rene Descartes, Paris

Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon

Table of Contents

List of contributors1. Introduction to auditory cognition, Stephen McAdams and Emmanuel Bigand2. Auditory scene analysis: hearing in complex environments, Albert S. Bregman3. Perception of acoustic sequences: global integration versus temporal resolution, Richard M. Warren4. Attending to auditory events: the role of temporal organization, Mari Riess Jones and William Yee5. Auditory memory, Robert G. Crowder6. Recognition of sound sources and events, Stephen McAdams7. Auditory agnosia: a functional analysis, Isabelle Peretz8. Contributions of music to research on human auditory cognition, Emmanuel Bigand9. Listening strategies in infancy: the roots of music and language development, Sandra E. Trehub and Laurel J. TrainorGlossaryName IndexSubject Index

Editorial Reviews

"Combines work on sound source determination and knowledge in the more traditional areas of auditory processing to form the beginnings of a unified view of auditory cognition. . . . even those without musical experience will find this a useful book for broadening their view of human cognition." —William Yost, Science

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