The Ears and Hearing Articles from Scientific American

Readings from Scientific American

The Ears and Hearing
8/57	66	"The Ear." von Bekesy; structure and function; methods of sound and pitch detection; hearing disorders.
3/61	72	"The Reproduction of Sound." Edward F. David, Jr. In designing sound systems the engineer copes mainly with the needs of the ear.
l0/6l	132	"Auditory Localization." Mark R. Rosenzweig. How does the brain use the signals from two ears to tell the direction of sounds?
4/62	143	"Attention and the Perception of Speech." Broadbert; discussion of the mechanism of selection of the human ear in response to sound from more than one source.
4/65	94	"Moths and Ultrasound." Kenneth DRoeder. Some species of moth can hear ultrasonic cries of predator bats. Acoustics and physiology invovled are discussed.
12/70	30	"Auditory Illusions and Confusions." Warren and Warren. They isolate and elucidate basic perceptual mechanisms.
10/75	93	"Musical Illusions." Deutsch; Paradoxes involved in auditory perceptions in the brain; right-handed vs. left-handed perceptions of tones.
2/79	148	"The Medical Influence of the Stethoscope." Reiser; historical but with some physics.
12/81	112	"The Hearing of the Barn Owl." Eric I. Knudson; superb ability to determine the direction of the source of a sound; brain's analysis of information and the asymmetries of head shape that provide that information.
4/82	16	"The music of Frederic Chopin: startling aural patterns that also startle the eye." Douglas R. Hofstadter (Metamagical Themas).
11/80	198	See category 10.

Dick Piccard revised this file (http://ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu/~piccard/scientam/hearing.html) on July 15, 1997.

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