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4 The Perception of Sound
Sensitivity of the Ear

Ear Anatomy
The Outer Ear—Pinna
A Demonstration of Directional Cues

The Outer Ear—Auditory Canal
The Middle Ear
The Inner Ear

Stereocilia
Loudness versus Frequency
Loudness Control

Area of Audibility
Loudness versus Sound-Pressure Level
Loudness and Bandwidth

Loudness of Impulses
Audibility of Loudness Changes
Pitch versus Frequency

An Experiment in Pitch
The Missing Fundamental

Timbre versus Spectrum
Localization of Sound Sources
Binaural Localization
Law of the First Wavefront

The Franssen Effect
The Precedence Effect

Perception of Reflected Sound
The Cocktail-Party Effect
Aural Nonlinearity

Subjective versus Objective Evaluation
Occupational and Recreational Hearing Loss
Summary

5 Signals, Speech, Music, and Noise

Sound Spectrograph
Speech
Vocal Tract Molding of Speech

Formation of Voiced Sounds
Formation of Unvoiced Sounds

Frequency Response of Speech
Directionality of Speech
Music
String Instruments