71000
PSYCHOLOGICAL ACOUSTICS

COURSE OFFERING
Spring 2002
Ph.D. Program in Speech and Hearing Sciences
Graduate Center  of The City University of New York

71000  Psychological Acoustics
Thursdays  4.15-6.15

Instructor: Glenis Long
glong@gc.cuny.edu
(212)817-8810

 This course is a seminar course which covers auditory sensation and perception. Topics covered will include: psychophysical methods; The perception of loudness; Frequency selectivity, masking and the critical band; Temporal processing in the auditory system; Pitch perception; Space Perception; Auditory pattern and object perception, Practical applications such as sound quality, musical acoustics.   The major emphasis will be on normal hearing individuals, but research with hearing impaired listeners (and those with cochlear implants) will also be covered.  The exact topics will depend on the interests of the students.

Lectures, discussion and readings will be supplemented by laboratory exercises to enable students to experience some of the experimental paradigms used in psychoacoustic research.

Textbook:
"An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing"  B.C.J. Moore,
4rd Edition Academic Press (London), 1997.
Supplemented by  readings from current Journals.

Credits 3

Grade will be based on presentations to the class and an in depth term paper on a topic of choice.
 

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