Book1960
Experiments in Hearing
Georg von Békésy
Reports the physical mechanics of how the cochlea performs frequency analysis via a travelling wave along the basilar membrane, the experimental basis for modern models of hearing.
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Auditory System
A topic within Systems Neuroscience, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Neuroscience.
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Paper2011
Sound Texture Perception via Statistics of the Auditory Periphery: Evidence from Sound Synthesis
McDermott & Simoncelli
Argues that human perception of textured sounds like rain or fire depends on time-averaged statistics extracted by the auditory periphery, not moment-to-moment waveform detail.
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