Brian,
Harris’ second type of reader
is boring.
“The second type of reader is served
by the introductory and bibliographical materal accompanying each paper…..”
Bruno Giordano asked whether I’d
provide a PDF copy of Harris’ Intro. I’ll post this to the
site shortly.
Dan
From: Brian Gygi
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Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009
10:24 AM
To: Tollin, Daniel;
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Subject: Re: Core readings in
auditory perception
Just out of curiousity, what was the OTHER type of reader Harris had in
mind (presumably one with no bottle of switchel, nor an orchard to sip it in)?
Brian
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From: Tollin, Daniel
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Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 09:13
AM
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Subject: Re: Core readings in
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Hi, There are indeed some real nuggets in Harris' Preface that
begin his Forty Germinal Papers in Human Hearing. Here is the opening
paragraph. "It is customary on occasions such as this to define the diners
for whom the feast is spread. I had two types of reader in mind. One is he who
loves to lie in a hammock in his orchard of a summer afternoon, a glass of
switchel in one hand and a good book on psychoacoustics in the other. In such a
fructiparous setting, who would not relish leafing and re-leafing the pages of
the first memorable volumes of the Acoustical Society journal, or one of Seashore's
charming Iowa Monographs of 1899 on the psychology of music." It just gets
better from there on. By the way, I have Douglas Creelman's copy of this book,
which I found at a used book store several years ago. Doug: Why did you part
with this gem? Daniel J. Tollin, PhD Assistant Professor University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center Department of Physiology and Biophysics/Mail Stop 8307
Research Complex 1-N, Rm 7120 12800 East 19th Ave PO Box 6511 Aurora, CO 80045
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Bob Carlyon Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 12:40 PM To: AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Core readings in auditory perception Dear David, The only one I
know of is the rather outdated collection, with a charmingly eccentric
introduction, by J. Donald Harris, entitled something like "Forty Germinal
Papers in Hearing". I doubt, though, that Amazon have it in stock...
cheers bob David Schwartz wrote: > Dear list members, > > I'm looking
for a collection of core/classic readings in auditory > perception to use
for an upper level undergrad course I'm teaching in > the fall. I have in
mind something analogous to the visual perception > collection Steve Yantis
edited >
(http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Perception-Key-Readings-Cognition/dp/0863775985/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239459553&sr=1-1).
> Does such a book exist? If not, what would you consider the ~10 most >
important readings in the history of auditory perception research > (aside,
of course, from your own publications). > > Thanks. > > David --
Dr. Bob Carlyon MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit 15 Chaucer Rd Cambridge
CB2 7EF England Tel: +44 1223 355294 Fax: +44 1223 359062 www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/hearing