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84 relations: Acoustic location, Acoustical engineering, Amplitude, Analog delay line, Animal echolocation, Auditory cortex, Auditory system, August Seebeck, Auricle (anatomy), Axon, Bark scale, Binaural fusion, Binaural recording, Binocular vision, Bird of prey, Brainstem, Carl Stumpf, Charles Wheatstone, Cochlear nerve, Cocktail party effect, Coincidence detection in neurobiology, Cone, Continuous spectrum, Crepuscular animal, Critical band, Cross-correlation, Decibel, Dummy head recording, Ear, Ear canal, Eardrum, Ernst Heinrich Weber, Franssen effect, Frequency response, Giovanni Battista Venturi, Group delay and phase delay, Hair cell, Hans Wallach, Head shadow, Hearing range, Human echolocation, Inferior colliculus, Interaural time difference, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Lateral lemniscus, Lloyd A. Jeffress, Loudness, Mel scale, Middle ear, Model organism, ..., Neuron, Nocturnality, Organ of Corti, Ormia ochracea, Outer ear, Oval window, Parallax, Perceptual-based 3D sound localization, Phase (waves), Philosophy, Precedence effect, Prior probability, Psychoacoustics, Psychology, QSound, Reflection (physics), René Laennec, Signal-to-noise ratio, Sound, Sound localization, Spatial hearing loss, Spiral ganglion, Stereophonic sound, Stethoscope, Stimulus (physiology), Superior olivary complex, Timbre, Time of arrival, Tuning fork, Vertebrate, Wave field synthesis, Wavelength, William Charles Wells, 5.1 surround sound. Expand index (34 more) »
Acoustic location
Acoustic location is the use of sound to determine the distance and direction of its source or reflector.
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Acoustical engineering
Acoustical engineering (also known as acoustic engineering) is the branch of engineering dealing with sound and vibration.
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Amplitude
The amplitude of a periodic variable is a measure of its change over a single period (such as time or spatial period).
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Analog delay line
An analog delay line is a network of electrical components connected in cascade, where each individual element creates a time difference or phase change between its input signal and its output signal.
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Animal echolocation
Echolocation, also called bio sonar, is the biological sonar used by several kinds of animals.
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Auditory cortex
The primary auditory cortex is the part of the temporal lobe that processes auditory information in humans and other vertebrates.
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Auditory system
The auditory system is the sensory system for the sense of hearing.
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August Seebeck
August Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Seebeck (27 December 1805 in Jena – 19 March 1849 in Dresden) was a scientist at the Technische Universität Dresden.
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Auricle (anatomy)
The auricle or auricula is the visible part of the ear that resides outside the head.
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Axon
An axon (from Greek ἄξων áxōn, axis) or nerve fiber, is a long, slender projection of a nerve cell, or neuron, that typically conducts electrical impulses known as action potentials, away from the nerve cell body.
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Bark scale
The Bark scale is a psychoacoustical scale proposed by Eberhard Zwicker in 1961.
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Binaural fusion
Binaural fusion or binaural integration is a cognitive process that involves the "fusion" of different auditory information presented binaurally, or to each ear.
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Binaural recording
Binaural recording is a method of recording sound that uses two microphones, arranged with the intent to create a 3-D stereo sound sensation for the listener of actually being in the room with the performers or instruments.
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Binocular vision
In biology, binocular vision is a type of vision in which an animal having two eyes is able to perceive a single three-dimensional image of its surroundings.
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Bird of prey
A bird of prey, predatory bird, or raptor is any of several species of bird that hunts and feeds on rodents and other animals.
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Brainstem
The brainstem (or brain stem) is the posterior part of the brain, adjoining and structurally continuous with the spinal cord.
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Carl Stumpf
Carl Stumpf (21 April 1848 – 25 December 1936) was a German philosopher and psychologist.
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Charles Wheatstone
Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS (6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional images), and the Playfair cipher (an encryption technique).
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Cochlear nerve
The cochlear nerve (also auditory or acoustic neuron) is one of two parts of the vestibulocochlear nerve, a cranial nerve present in amniotes, the other part being the vestibular nerve.
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Cocktail party effect
The cocktail party effect is the phenomenon of the brain's ability to focus one's auditory attention (an effect of selective attention in the brain) on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, as when a partygoer can focus on a single conversation in a noisy room.
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Coincidence detection in neurobiology
Coincidence detection in the context of neurobiology is a process by which a neuron or a neural circuit can encode information by detecting the occurrence of temporally close but spatially distributed input signals.
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Cone
A cone is a three-dimensional geometric shape that tapers smoothly from a flat base (frequently, though not necessarily, circular) to a point called the apex or vertex.
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Continuous spectrum
In physics, a continuous spectrum usually means a set of attainable values for some physical quantity (such as energy or wavelength) that is best described as an interval of real numbers, as opposed to a discrete spectrum, a set of attainable values that is discrete in the mathematical sense, where there is a positive gap between each value and the next one.
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Crepuscular animal
Crepuscular animals are those that are active primarily during twilight (that is, the periods of dawn and dusk).
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Critical band
In audiology and psychoacoustics the concept of critical bands, introduced by Harvey Fletcher in 1933 and refined in 1940, describes the frequency bandwidth of the "auditory filter" created by the cochlea, the sense organ of hearing within the inner ear.
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Cross-correlation
In signal processing, cross-correlation is a measure of similarity of two series as a function of the displacement of one relative to the other.
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Decibel
The decibel (symbol: dB) is a unit of measurement used to express the ratio of one value of a physical property to another on a logarithmic scale.
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Dummy head recording
In acoustics, the dummy head recording (also known as artificial head, Kunstkopf or Head and Torso Simulator) is a method of recording used to generate binaural recordings.
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Ear
The ear is the organ of hearing and, in mammals, balance.
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Ear canal
The ear canal (external acoustic meatus, external auditory meatus, EAM; meatus acusticus externus) is a tube running from the outer ear to the middle ear.
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Eardrum
In the anatomy of humans and various other tetrapods, the eardrum, also called the tympanic membrane or myringa, is a thin, cone-shaped membrane that separates the external ear from the middle ear.
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Ernst Heinrich Weber
Ernst Heinrich Weber (24 June 1795 – 26 January 1878) was a German physician who is considered one of the founders of experimental psychology.
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Franssen effect
The Franssen effect is an auditory illusion where the listener incorrectly localizes a sound.
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Frequency response
Frequency response is the quantitative measure of the output spectrum of a system or device in response to a stimulus, and is used to characterize the dynamics of the system.
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Giovanni Battista Venturi
Giovanni Battista Venturi (Bibbiano, 11 September 1746 – Reggio nell'Emilia, 10 September 1822) was an Italian physicist, savant, man of letters, diplomat and historian of science.
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Group delay and phase delay
In signal processing, group delay is the time delay of the amplitude envelopes of the various sinusoidal components of a signal through a device under test, and is a function of frequency for each component.
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Hair cell
Hair cells are the sensory receptors of both the auditory system and the vestibular system in the ears of all vertebrates.
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Hans Wallach
Hans Wallach (November 28, 1904 – February 5, 1998) was a German-American experimental psychologist whose research focused on perception and learning.
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Head shadow
A head shadow or acoustic shadow is a region of reduced amplitude of a sound because it is obstructed by the head (diffracted).
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Hearing range
Hearing range describes the range of frequencies that can be heard by humans or other animals, though it can also refer to the range of levels.
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Human echolocation
Human echolocation is the ability of humans to detect objects in their environment by sensing echoes from those objects, by actively creating sounds – for example, by tapping their canes, lightly stomping their foot, snapping their fingers, or making clicking noises with their mouths – people trained to orient by echolocation can interpret the sound waves reflected by nearby objects, accurately identifying their location and size.
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Inferior colliculus
The inferior colliculus (IC) (Latin for lower hill) is the principal midbrain nucleus of the auditory pathway and receives input from several peripheral brainstem nuclei in the auditory pathway, as well as inputs from the auditory cortex.
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Interaural time difference
The interaural time difference (or ITD) when concerning humans or animals, is the difference in arrival time of a sound between two ears.
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John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, (12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was a physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904.
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Lateral lemniscus
The lateral lemniscus is a tract of axons in the brainstem that carries information about sound from the cochlear nucleus to various brainstem nuclei and ultimately the contralateral inferior colliculus of the midbrain.
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Lloyd A. Jeffress
Lloyd Alexander Jeffress (November 15, 1900 – April 2, 1986) was an acoustical scientist, a professor of Experimental Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, a developer of mine-hunting models for the US Navy during World War II and after, and the man Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling credited with getting him interested in chemistry.
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Loudness
In acoustics, loudness is the subjective perception of sound pressure.
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Mel scale
The mel scale, named by Stevens, Volkmann, and Newman in 1937, is a perceptual scale of pitches judged by listeners to be equal in distance from one another.
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Middle ear
The middle ear is the portion of the ear internal to the eardrum, and external to the oval window of the inner ear.
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Model organism
A model organism is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the organism model will provide insight into the workings of other organisms.
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Neuron
A neuron, also known as a neurone (British spelling) and nerve cell, is an electrically excitable cell that receives, processes, and transmits information through electrical and chemical signals.
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Nocturnality
Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.
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Organ of Corti
The organ of Corti, or spiral organ, is the receptor organ for hearing and is located in the mammalian cochlea.
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Ormia ochracea
Ormia ochracea is a small yellow nocturnal fly, a parasitoid of crickets.
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Outer ear
The outer ear, external ear, or auris externa is the external portion of the ear, which consists of the auricle (also pinna) and the ear canal.
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Oval window
The oval window (or fenestra vestibuli) is a membrane-covered opening that leads from the middle ear to the vestibule of the inner ear.
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Parallax
Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines.
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Perceptual-based 3D sound localization
Perceptual-based 3D sound localization is the application of knowledge of the human auditory system to develop 3D sound localization technology.
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Phase (waves)
Phase is the position of a point in time (an instant) on a waveform cycle.
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Philosophy
Philosophy (from Greek φιλοσοφία, philosophia, literally "love of wisdom") is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
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Precedence effect
The precedence effect or law of the first wavefront is a binaural psychoacoustic effect.
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Prior probability
In Bayesian statistical inference, a prior probability distribution, often simply called the prior, of an uncertain quantity is the probability distribution that would express one's beliefs about this quantity before some evidence is taken into account.
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Psychoacoustics
Psychoacoustics is the scientific study of sound perception and audiology.
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Psychology
Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.
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QSound
QSound is the original name for a positional three-dimensional (3D) sound processing algorithm from QSound Labs that creates 3D audio effects from multiple monophonic sources and sums the outputs to two channels for presentation over regular stereo speakers.
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Reflection (physics)
Reflection is the change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated.
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René Laennec
René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec (17 February 1781 – 13 August 1826) was a French physician.
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Signal-to-noise ratio
Signal-to-noise ratio (abbreviated SNR or S/N) is a measure used in science and engineering that compares the level of a desired signal to the level of background noise.
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Sound
In physics, sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid.
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Sound localization
Sound localization is a listener's ability to identify the location or origin of a detected sound in direction and distance.
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Spatial hearing loss
Spatial hearing loss, refers to a form of deafness that is an inability to use spatial cues about where a sound originates from in space.
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Spiral ganglion
The spiral (cochlear) ganglion is the group of nerve cells that serve the sense of hearing by sending a representation of sound from the cochlea to the brain.
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Stereophonic sound
Stereophonic sound or, more commonly, stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that creates an illusion of multi-directional audible perspective.
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Stethoscope
The stethoscope is an acoustic medical device for auscultation, or listening to the internal sounds of an animal or human body.
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Stimulus (physiology)
In physiology, a stimulus (plural stimuli) is a detectable change in the internal or external environment.
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Superior olivary complex
The superior olivary complex (or SOC or superior olive) is a collection of brainstem nuclei that functions in multiple aspects of hearing and is an important component of the ascending and descending auditory pathways of the auditory system.
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Timbre
In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.
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Time of arrival
Time of arrival (TOA or ToA), sometimes called time of flight (ToF), is the travel time of a radio signal from a single transmitter to a remote single receiver.
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Tuning fork
A tuning fork is an acoustic resonator in the form of a two-pronged fork with the prongs (tines) formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic metal (usually steel).
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Vertebrate
Vertebrates comprise all species of animals within the subphylum Vertebrata (chordates with backbones).
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Wave field synthesis
Wave field synthesis (WFS) is a spatial audio rendering technique, characterized by creation of virtual acoustic environments.
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Wavelength
In physics, the wavelength is the spatial period of a periodic wave—the distance over which the wave's shape repeats.
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William Charles Wells
William Charles Wells FRS FRSEd (1757–1817), was a Scottish-American physician and printer.
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5.1 surround sound
5.1 surround sound ("five-point one") is the common name for six channel surround sound audio systems.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_localization
