Psychoacoustics and Methods for Listening Experiments
Content:
- Human senses: Human Hearing System
- Human Perception of Sound: Critical Bands, Pitch and Frequency , JNDs, Auditory Filtering, Masking, Informational Masking, Role of Memory in Perception, Auditory Attention, Loudness Perception
- Binaural Hearing: Fundamentals, binaural masking, localization, motion detection, precedence effect, binaural models
- Speech perception: Fundamentals, Models (Articulation Index, Speech Intelligibility Index, etc.), Influence of Room Acoustics and Noise on Speech perception
- Auditory Scene Analysis
- Psychophysics: Scales, Methods, Signal Detection Theory (Yes/No, Rating, Forced Choice)
- Research Methods: Hypotheses (H0 and H1), p-value, Type 1 & 2 errors, Variables, Definition
- Experimental Design: within-subjects / between-subjects, Power analysis, T-test / ANOVA
- Psychoacoustic Measures: Loudness, Sharpness, Tonality, Roughness, etc.
- Ethics