Thinking in Sound The Cognitive Psychology of Human Audition [Paperback]

The realm of auditory cognition is increasingly being recognized as an important new area of psychological and musicological research, however until now no single work has presented the subject in a comprehensive manner for the benefit of researchers and students. To rectify this situation a special tutorial workshop organized by the French Acoustical Society was held at IRCAM, the music research institute founded by Pierre Boulez. Specialists in perceptual organization, memory, attention, music psychology, neurospsychology, and developmental psychology were invited from Europe and North America. This volume presents the materials from their lectures. The book will be useful to advanced students in the cognitive sciences and scientists specializing in many fields as well as in auditory psychology.

List of contributors
1. Introduction to auditory cognition,Stephen McAdams and Emmanuel Bigand
2. Auditory scene analysis: hearing in complex environments,Albert S. Bregman
3. Perception of acoustic sequences: global integration versus temporal resolution,Richard M. Warren
4. Attending to auditory events: the role of temporal organization,Mari Riess Jones and William Yee
5. Auditory memory,Robert G. Crowder
6. Recognition of sound sources and events,Stephen McAdams
7. Auditory agnosia: a functional analysis,Isabelle Peretz
8. Contributions of music to research on human auditory cognition,Emmanuel Bigand
9. Listening strategies in infancy: the roots of music and language development,Sandra E. Trehub and Laurel J. Trainor
Glossary
Name Index
Subject Index

Combines work on sound source determination and knowledge in the more traditional areas of auditory processing to form the beginnings of a unified view of auditory cognition. . . . even those without musical experience will find this a useful book for broadening their view of human cognition. lÓh