New Book

[August Schick <SCHICK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

                Recent Trends in Hearing Research.
                 Festschrift for Seiichiro Namba.

      Edited by Hugo Fastl, Sonoko Kuwano and August Schick.

   Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag 1996, 402 pages, author index, subject
 index, biography and a select list of publications of Seiichiro
                    Namba (Osaka University).


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Contents

1. Noise quality (Seiichiro Namba)

2. Masking effects and loudness evaluation (Hugo Fastl)

3. Loudness adaptation (Bertram Scharf)

4. The detection of frequency modulation (Brian C.J. Moore and
   Aleksander Sek)

5. Short-term memory for pitch (Andrzej Rakowski)

6. Musical Communication (Edward Carterette and R.A. Kendall)

7. Some current trends in temporal processing (Mary Florentine and
   Soren Buus)

8. Continuous judgment of temporally varying sounds (Sonoko
   Kuwano)

9. Theory and method in perceptural evaluation of complex sound
   (Birgitta Berglund and R.F. Soames Job)

10. Noise annoyance research: Purpose and progress (Martin Taylor)

11. Noise exposure (Zheng Darui)
12. Cross-cultural psychoacoustics (August Schick and Holger Hoege)
13. Category-subdivision scaling - A powerful tool in audiometry
   and noise assessment
   (Juergen Hellbrueck)

14. Noise induced health hazards - With special regards to
   physiological noise susceptibility (Gerd Jansen)