Fundamentals of Hearing

This Third Edition of Yost's successful book on hearing completely updates and expands the fundamental facts about hearing. Written for undergraduates with a minimal background in science and math, the book makes full use of appendices, glossaries, indices, and supplemental material. The book is divided into four broad sections on the Auditory Stimulus, Auditory Anatomy and Physiology, Perception of Simple Sounds, and Complex Sound Processing. Each chapter presents information clearly and concisely, and reviews core information in a chapter summary. KEY FEATURES Covers both physics and physiology in equal measure Reorganized and fully updated to reflect advances in the hearing sciences Structured as a user-friendly textbook, containing italicized key words, chapter summaries, supplemental information, and literature reviews Includes subject and author indices and a list of abbreviations used in the book Contains six appendices on sinusoidal functions, logarithms and decibels, Fourier Series, psychophysics, neural anatomy and physiology, and techniques and tools used to study hearingYost, William A. is the author of 'Fundamentals of Hearing' with ISBN 9780127726908 and ISBN 012772690X.