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Acoustic reflex, 318, 336338

Acoustic tau, 98
Acoustical Society of America, 3, 11
Acoustical Society of Japan, 181
Affordances, 114, 191, 211, 272
African drumming, 17
Air conditioner noise, 181
Analytical perception, 250, 251
Apparent motion, 89, 131, 259
Assistive technology, 162
Atomic blasts, 152
Attentional pulse, 53, 54, 59, 61, 62, 67, 77,
78, 81
Attractor, 52, 53, 55, 58, 76, 77
Audification, 152153
Auditory cortex, 37, 40, 42, 87, 95, 224, 234,
238, 261, 334
Auditory display, 149170
Auditory events, 2, 118120, 153, 156, 219,
233, 272, 274, 281, 303, 304
Auditory icons, 151152, 160, 167
Auditory localization, 88, 8995, 99
and auditory display, 160
and bimodal perception, 258, 262263
and development, 195197
and ecological psychology, 3
Auditory looming, 97104, 225226, 240,
259260
Auditory motion, 89, 95106, 334
Auditory nerve, 322, 324, 327, 330
Auditory objects, 29, 114124, 127, 129, 192,
250, 273, 281, 282, 304
Auditory reachability, 94, 95, 196
Auditory scene analysis, 1544, 121
and amplitude modulation, 22

and computational modeling, 15, 38, 39, 41,

140
and development, 197199
and dimensional interaction, 252
and hearing loss, 40, 42
and loudness, 334336
and pitch, 18, 24
and rhythm, 19, 23, 198
and spatialization, 20, 23, 198
and speech, 24, 22, 23, 26, 198
and timbre, 18, 26, 198
Auditory source perception, 231233
Auditory space, 20, 21, 128, 155, 196, 257,
258, 262
Auditory stream, 1544, 54, 118, 120, 121,
123, 125, 150, 155, 157, 161, 169, 197,
198, 303, 334335

Babbling, 204
Basilar membrane, 199, 274, 323327, 328,
331
Bats, 103, 106, 240, 263, 334, 337
Beer, 7
Behaviorism, 6, 10
Binaural room impulse responses, 329
Blind listeners, 103106, 162, 168, 169, 258
Blindfolded listeners, 91, 94, 101, 258, 329
Bouncing versus breaking, 232

Car, 4, 32, 125, 202, 240, 249

Cat, 37, 337, 338
Chromatic scale, 278, 279, 283, 288
Circle of fifths, 280, 286

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Circular tone flows, 135, 138, 143
Clapping, 225, 232
Classical conditioning, 6, 17
Coarticulation, 222, 227, 229, 234, 236, 237
Cochlea, 1, 11, 25, 41, 193, 317, 322, 323327,
328, 330, 335, 336, 337
Cochlear microphonic, 324, 337
Cocktail party, 116, 118, 121, 334
Context effects, 179, 181, 251, 254, 272, 330
Cultural effects, 169
and auditory icons, 152
and music, 305
of noise, 185188, 339, 340

Danger signals, see Warning signals

Darwins prediction, 6
Development, 9496, 191211, 262263
Dichotic listening, 116, 123, 199, 252
Diphthong, 26
Direct perception, 96, 118, 305
Directional bands, 93
Doppler effect, 97, 225, 250, 253
Doppler illusion, 98, 253, 330
Drunken horse stimuli, 20
Duality theory
localization, 90
objects, 119
Dynamical systems, 50, 52, 55, 56, 61, 68,
119

Earcons, 151152, 156, 167

Earthquakes, 152
Echolocation, 103106, 232, 240, 337
Ecological psychoacoustics, 1, 95, 149, 150,
151, 154, 170, 219, 220, 221, 224, 227,
231, 233, 241, 242
Ecological psychology, 2, 3, 192 306
Ecological validity, 1, 4, 8, 9, 103, 113, 114,
272
Empiricist position, 201
Environmental psychology, 175
Environmental Quality Standard of Noise, 176
Equal loudness contours, 159, 251, 275, 210,
321, 322, 324, 327, 330
Equal pitch contours, 251, 330
Evoked potentials, 179, 327
Evolution, 4, 6, 7, 34, 88, 99, 100, 102, 233,
253, 255
Exclusive allocation, principle of, 122
Expectancy profile, 6670, 76, 78, 80
External validity, 8, 9, 162, 164

Index
Facial vision, 104
Fatigue and auditory display, 160
Feature integration theory, 128129
Figure-ground, 122123, 125
Fire, 113114, 122, 143, 144, 151, 156
Frequency resolution, 192193, 194, 198
Fricative, 206, 209210

Geiger counter, 153, 159

Gestalt perspective, 115, 122, 124, 126, 128,
131, 140, 250
Gestural phonology, 228, 229
Gestural primitives, 222
Gibsonian approach, 2, 49, 113, 115, 140, 166,
202, 210, 271
Goal-directed behavior, 272, 304
Guinea pig, 324

Hair cells, 324, 325

Head movements, 88, 93, 195
Hearing aid, 2, 181, 338
Hearing loss, 15, 40, 42, 233, 322, 324, 325,
328, 337, 340
Hierarchical decomposition model, 31, 32, 34
Holistic perception, 155, 202, 249, 249253

Incidental sounds, 151

Indispensable attributes, theory of, 123,
126128
Independent component analysis, 36, 38
Indifference curve, 130, 131, 134
Inertia tensor, 231, 232, 239, 240
Infant-directed speech, 203, 204205
Infants, 9495, 191211, 234, 258, 260, 335,
336
Inferior colliculus, 41
Informational masking, 200, 201
Informational similitude, 236238
Intensity resolution, 193194
Interacting perceptual dimensions, 159,
249264, 275, 330
Interaural intensity difference, 90, 91, 195
Interaural phase difference, 90, 91, 195, 196
Interaural time difference, 41, 90, 91
Internal validity, 810, 89, 249
International Commission on Biological Effects
of Noise, 182

Just-noticeable-difference, 72, 73, 75, 157, 319

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Language acquisition device, 207
Loudness, 12, 317341
and auditory display, 152, 157158, 167,
169
and auditory looming, 97, 99100
and auditory stream segregation, 28, 29,
150
constancy, 328329
discomfort threshold, 338340
and distance, 226
and ecological validity, 9
interaction with pitch, 250254, 275
methods for measuring, 318322
of noise, 176188
and speech, 12, 223, 225

Marbles, 202
Masking
and auditory display, 154, 158, 163
and development, 199201
and hearing loss, 324
and loudness, 324
and perceptual grouping, 42, 117
McGurk effect, 12, 43, 223224, 226, 233, 236,
239, 257
Mel scale, 276277
Melodic contour, 296302
Memory
and auditory display, 167
and development, 199
and pitch, 275276, 296, 303, 304
and speech, 237
and timing, 63, 68, 69, 302
Mental representation
and ecological psychology, 3
and external space, 258
and pitch, 278, 306
Metaphors and audition, 49, 116, 152, 153,
165, 168
Minimum audible angle, 90, 95, 195196
Minimum audible facing angle, 91
Minimum audible movement angle, 90
Mismatch negativity, 3334, 40
Missing fundamental, 158, 274, 275
Modality-neutral, 114, 119, 143, 219,
234242
Monkey, 37
Motor theory, speech, 226227
Musical expertise, 154, 224, 254, 276
Multisensory perception, 201203, 211,
220, 223224, 226, 233241, 250,
255263

Music, 2, 3, 5, 12, 16, 17, 20, 23, 26, 31,

3236, 50, 117, 152, 157158, 165, 185,
186, 197, 198, 221, 253, 254, 273,
275306, 320

Nativist position, 201

Navigation, 91, 103, 104, 255256, 259, 263
Noise
and auditory stream segregation, 26, 31, 32,
37, 38, 42
background, 153, 157, 158, 163, 329
and development, 193, 194, 199, 200, 201,
209
environmental acoustics, 175188
and localization, 90, 91, 94, 95, 100104
loudness function, 320
and speech, 228, 226
stimuli, 2, 4, 5, 156
visual, 152

Octave equivalence, 279280

Oscillator period, 54, 55, 57, 6172, 77
Oscillator phase, 55, 61

Pacemaker, 63, 64, 66, 74

Pain and auditory display, 160
Perceptual learning, 203205, 210211
Perceptual object, 43, 113, 114, 124, 228, 235,
272
Perceptual organization, 1544, 114, 115, 119,
124, 303, 304
Phase entrainment, 57, 58, 60, 61, 77
Phase response curve, 57
Phonemes, 206, 207, 209, 210, 228, 281
Physical correlate theory, 226, 328329
Piano, 165, 177
Plasticity, 239, 262
Point-light speech, 236238
Pitch, 271306
and auditory display, 158159
and auditory scene analysis, 18, 24
and psychological scaling, 276281
chroma, 279
double helix, 280
hierarchy, 284
helix, 278
place theory of, 274
temporal theory of, 274
thresholds, 274
tonal magnitude, 287288

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Pitch (continued)
tonal models of, 283
height, 279
Practice effects, 8
in auditory display, 162
in auditory localization, 92
Precedence effect, 24, 90
Process monitors, 153
Proximity, 115, 121, 122, 130135, 142

Qualitative methods, 166

Ramped and damped sounds, 331334

Rattle, 94, 202, 204
Real-world sounds, 9, 11, 31, 94, 113, 149,
150, 164, 167, 191, 224225
Reeds, 5
Reverberation, 42, 93, 117, 329, 331, 332, 333,
340
Roll effect, 28

Saturn, 152
Schema, 29, 30, 40, 41, 42, 299
Selective advantage, 99100
Selective attention
and auditory objects, 128
and auditory scene analysis, 15, 16, 30, 31,
34, 40, 42, 44, 198199
and dimensional interaction, 252
and loudness, 318, 334336
and rhythmic entrainment, 50
and tonal relations, 303
Separable dimensions, 250
Shepard tones, 279
Signal detection theory, 2, 10
Sine wave speech, 228, 236, 237
Siren, 5
Snapshot theory, 9596
Sonification, 149, 152159, 163, 165, 166, 169,
170
Spectrogram, 34
Speech, 2, 3, 11, 12, 17, 21, 22, 23, 26, 29, 21,
32, 34, 35, 36, 42, 43, 50, 117, 155, 175,
177, 186, 195, 198, 202, 204210,
219242, 253, 258, 258, 273, 279, 281,
304, 320, 331, 334, 338, 340
Stimulus error, 119

Index
Stimulus uncertainty, 199200
Superior colliculus, 261262

Tau, 98, 259

Tempo
and auditory display, 159160
and auditory scene analysis, 16, 1824,
2526, 27, 29, 34, 36, 40, 42
and development, 192194, 198, 202203,
211
and dimensional interaction, 254
perception, 4981
and pitch, 303
Timbre
and auditory display, 159160, 163, 165
and auditory scene analysis, 18, 20, 21, 22,
25, 2628, 40, 41
and dimensional interaction, 249, 254
and timing, 79
and perceptual interaction, 254, 275
and pitch, 273, 275, 276
and speech, 221, 237
Time discrimination, 49, 61, 7079
Time estimation, 49, 61, 6270
Time-to-arrival, see Auditory looming
Trading relations, 223
Training, see Practice effects
Tree in forest, 220, 242
Trill, 23, 24
Tuning fork, 5

Uncomfortably loud sounds, 318, 338340

Unilateral neglect, 40, 42

Vacuum tube, 5, 317

Vase/face, 122123
Velocity discrimination, 96
Visual capture, 257
Visual dominance, 258

Warning signals, 150159, 164, 167, 186

Webers Law
and ecological validity, 9
and time discrimination, 7273
World War II, 6

Zeitgeber, 58

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