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Course Contents

Unit 1: Signals And Signal Transformations

Lesson 1. Sine Waves
Interactivity 1. One Sine Wave
Interactivity 2. Two Sine Waves
Interactivity 3. Vectors

Lesson 2. Fourier Analysis And Synthesis
Interactivity 1. Periodic Signals
Interactivity 2. Aperiodic Signals

Lesson 3: Windows And Filters
Interactivity 1. Time-Domain Windowing
Interactivity 2. Frequency-Domain Filtering

Lesson 4. Nonlinearities
Interactivity 1. Distortion



Unit 2. Physical Acoustics Of Hearing

Lesson 1. From Sound Field To Eardrum
Interactivity 1. Diffraction Of Sound By A Sphere
Interactivity 2. Sound Propagation In The Ear Canal

 

Unit 3. Monaural Perception Of Stationary Signals

Lesson 1. The Range Of Hearing
Interactivity 1. Threshold Of Hearing

Lesson 2. Loudness Of Pure Tones
Interactivity 1. Finding A Scale Of Loudness
Interactivity 2. Loudness Recruitment Of A Tone In Noise

Lesson 3. Just-Noticeable Differences In Frequency And Intensity Of A Tone
Interactivity 1. Jnds In Frequency
Interactivity 2. Jnds In Intensity

Lesson 4. Pitch Of Complex Sounds
Interactivity 1. Pitch Of Harmonic Complexes
Interactivity 2. Pitch Of Inharmonic Complexes
Interactivity 3. Circular Pitch

Lesson 5. Simultaneous Masking
Interactivity 1. Tone-In-Noise Detection And The Critical Band
Interactivity 2. Tone-On-Tone Masking: Masking Patterns
Interactivity 3. Tone-On-Tone Masking: Psychophysical Tuning Curves

Lesson 6. Timbre
Interactivity 1. Timbre Differences In Steady-State Sounds
Interactivity 2. Spectral-Shape Discrimination
Interactivity 3. Monaural Diplacusis

Lesson 7. Auditory Nonlinearity And Afterimages
Interactivity 1. Searching For 2f1-F2
Interactivity 2. Zwicker Tones

 

Unit 4. Monaural Temporal Phenomena

Lesson 1. Temporal Resolution
Interactivity 1. The Modulation Transfer Function
Interactivity 2. Duration Discrimination

Lesson 2. Temporal Integration
Interactivity 1. Detection As A Function Of Duration

Lesson 3: Non-Simultaneous Masking
Interactivity 1. Backward Masking
Interactivity 2. Forward Masking
Interactivity 3. Pulsation Threshold: Psychophysical Tuning Curves

 

Unit 5. Binaural Hearing

Lesson 1. Lateralization
Interactivity 1. Effects Of Interaural Differences On Intracranial Image Position
Interactivity 2. Jnds In Interaural Time
Interactivity 3. Jnds In Interaural Level
Interactivity 4. Binaural Beats
Interactivity 5. The Precedence Effect

Lesson 2. Detection
Interactivity 1. Masking Level Differences

Lesson 3. Pitch
Interactivity 1. Huggins Pitch

 

Unit 6. Spatial Hearing

Lesson 1. Simulating Anechoic Listening
Interactivity 1. Sources In The Horizontal Plane
Interactivity 2. Sources In The Median Plane
Interactivity 3. Tone Detection In Noise
Interactivity 4. Speech Reception In Noise

Lesson 2. Phantom Images
Interactivity 1. Intensity-Difference Stereophony (Panning)
Interactivity 2. Delay-Difference Stereophony (The Precedence Effect)
Interactivity 3. Franssen’s Illusion

Lesson 3. Echoes
Interactivity 1. Sound Quality With A Single Echo
Interactivity 2. The Haas Effect

Lesson 4. Simulating Reverberant Listening
Interactivity 1. Sources In The Horizontal Plane
Interactivity 2. Binaural Squelch

 

Unit 7. Pattern Perception

Lesson 1. Temporal Order
Interactivity 1. Temporal Order Identification
Interactivity 2. Time-Reversed Sounds

Lesson 2. Streaming
Interactivity 1. Streaming By Pitch
Interactivity 2. Streaming By Location
Interactivity 3. Locating Clicks In Speech

Lesson 3. Source Segregation
Interactivity 1. Four Cues For Segregation

Lesson 4. Continuity
Interactivity 1. Tones And Noises
Interactivity 2. Picket-Fence Effect With Speech