Features

• An accessible guide to the basic and critical concepts in hearing science
• Extensively revised to reflect major advances and changes in the field
• Includes the most recent scientific and technical standards
• Extensive reference lists, plus suggestions for sources where students can find further coverage of selected topics
• Numerous illustrations and tables to provide clear comprehension of key material in the text

Summary

This fully updated and revised sixth edition of Hearing: An Introduction to Psychological and Physiological Acoustics provides a comprehensive introduction for graduate students and professionals in audiology and other fields dealing with audition (including hearing/speech science, psychology, otolaryngology, neuroscience, linguistics, and speech-language pathology). The sixth edition reflects the current status of this rapidly-evolving multidisciplinary field of hearing science.