Dear all,
I have written a new textbook on auditory perception with Dr Adele Goman that's just been published.
'How We Hear: An Introduction to Auditory Perception', is designed as a gentle introduction to auditory perception for those who are new to the area. It offers a less technical introduction than other textbooks that are available. It uses analogies and
real-world examples to facilitate understanding and make the content more accessible and engaging. Newly published, it offers up-to-date content.
It's available in print and as an interactive e-book:
The e-book contains embedded audio clips and audiovisual interactive activities, in-line, to help readers understand key concepts without needing to leave the page. There are also test-yourself questions for each chapter that provide live, interactive feedback
for readers.
The book contains the following chapters/topics:
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How do we hear sounds? (An introduction to properties of sounds, visualising sounds, and the auditory pathway)
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Perceptual characteristics of sound (including loudness, location, and pitch)
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Perceiving multiple sounds (Perceptual organisation, auditory scene analysis, and how multiple sounds are represented in the brain)
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Perceiving speech (A basic introduction to the speech signal, how people segment speech and recognise words, voices, prosody, and speech processing in the brain)
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Perceiving speech in noisy places (Types of ‘noise’, bottom-up and top-down factors affecting speech-in-noise perception, and types of attention)
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Perceiving music (Pitch, timing, and timbre in music, perceptual organisation of music, emotion, music and the brain, and individual differences including musical training, absolute pitch, music, and language background)
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Hearing and vision (Multisensory perception including sensory dominance, audio-visual integration, cross-modal plasticity, and synaesthesia)
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Hearing difficulties (Ways of measuring and assessing hearing, types of hearing loss and their consequences, interventions including hearing aids and cochlear implants, tinnitus, and hyperacusis)
If you have a teaching role and think the book could be useful for your teaching, you can request a
free inspection copy from Oxford University Press at the following link:
https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/how-we-hear-9780192844705?cc=gb&lang=en&
Otherwise, for a limited time, you can get 10% off lifetime access to the e-book with my author discount code: AUTHOR10 (see attached pdf for instructions on how to use it)
I hope you find the book helpful. Feel free to pass this email on to any friends, colleagues, or students who might be interested
Best wishes,
Emma
Emma Holmes
Associate Professor in Speech and Hearing Science, UCL
(she/her)
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