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Timbre: Acoustics, Perception, and Cognition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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Timbre: Acoustics, Perception, and Cognition (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 69
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Roughly defined as any property other than pitch, duration, and
loudness that allows two sounds to be distinguished, timbre is a
foundational aspect of hearing. The remarkable ability of humans to
recognize sound sources and events (e.g., glass breaking, a
friend's voice, a tone from a piano) stems primarily from a
capacity to perceive and process differences in the timbre of
sounds. Timbre raises many important issues in psychology and the
cognitive sciences, musical acoustics, speech processing, medical
engineering, and artificial intelligence. Current research on
timbre perception unfolds along three main fronts: On the one hand,
researchers explore the principal perceptual processes that
orchestrate timbre processing, such as the structure of its
perceptual representation, sound categorization and recognition,
memory for timbre, and its ability to elicit rich semantic
associations, as well as the underlying neural mechanisms. On the
other hand, timbre is studied as part of specific scenarios,
including the perception of the human voice, as a structuring force
in music, as perceived with cochlear implants, and through its role
in affecting sound quality and sound design. Finally, computational
acoustic models are sought through prediction of psychophysical
data, physiologically inspired representations, and audio
analysis-synthesis techniques. Along these three scientific fronts,
significant breakthroughs have been achieved during the last
decade. This volume will be the first book dedicated to a
comprehensive and authoritative presentation of timbre perception
and cognition research and the acoustic modeling of timbre. The
volume will serve as a natural complement to the SHAR volumes on
the basic auditory parameters of Pitch edited by Plack, Oxenham,
Popper, and Fay, and Loudness by Florentine, Popper, and Fay.
Moreover, through the integration of complementary scientific
methods ranging from signal processing to brain imaging, the book
has the potential to leverage new interdisciplinary synergies in
hearing science. For these reasons, the volume will be
exceptionally valuable to various subfields of hearing science,
including cognitive auditory neuroscience, psychoacoustics, music
perception and cognition, but may even exert significant influence
on fields such as musical acoustics, music information retrieval,
and acoustic signal processing. It is expected that the volume will
have broad appeal to psychologists, neuroscientists, and
acousticians involved in research on auditory perception and
cognition. Specifically, this book will have a strong impact on
hearing researchers with interest in timbre and will serve as the
key publication and up-to-date reference on timbre for graduate
students, postdoctoral researchers, as well as established
scholars.
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