About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 96. Chapters: Hearing impairment, Mel scale, Temporal masking, Microwave auditory effect, Equivalent rectangular bandwidth, Speech perception, Binaural beats, Sound localization, Earplug, Auditory fatigue, Active listening, Absolute threshold of hearing, Motor theory of speech perception, Auditory processing disorder, Critical band, Auditory spatial attention, Infrasound, Mismatch negativity, Psychoacoustics, Hearing conservation program, Cocktail party effect, Equal-loudness contour, Superior canal dehiscence, Analog ear, Audiometer, Missing fundamental, Speech science, Alfred A. Tomatis, Auditory integration training, Hyperacusis, Audioprosthology, Hypersonic effect, Tone deafness, Greenwood function, Sone, Auditory scene analysis, Auditory brainstem response, Otoacoustic emission, Hearing test, Intelligibility, Audiometry, Tone variator, Exposure action value, Franssen effect, Presbycusis, Tactile sound, Golden ear, Place theory, Combination tone, Ohm's acoustic law, Precedence effect, Speech Transmission Index, Threshold of pain, Fletcher-Munson curves, Speech shadowing, Tullio phenomenon, Phon, Masking threshold, Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder, Robinson-Dadson curves, Auditory-verbal therapy, Onset, Simultaneous masking, Alcons, Auditory event, Auditory imagery, Autophony, Repetition pitch, Bark scale, Duplex perception, Acoustic shadow, Interruptible fold back, Listener fatigue, Echogenicity, Computational auditory scene analysis, Dichotic pitch, Brainstem auditory evoked potentials, Earmold, Isochronic tones, Monaural beats. Excerpt: Deafness is a condition wherein the ability to detect certain frequencies of sound is completely or partially impaired. When applied to humans, the term hearing impaired is rejected by the deaf culture movement, where the terms deaf and hard-of-hearing are preferred. Hearing sensitivity...
