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Chapter 1

This site contains a tutorial on hearing. It is designed to compliment the textbook, Fundamentals of Hearing: An Introduction and Fundamentals of Hearing: A Workbook. The tutorial contains sixteen sections or chapters corresponding to the sixteen chapters in the textbook. There are also links (updated four times per year) to other sites that provide educational material related to hearing. Each chapter contains information and demonstrations related to sound, auditory anatomy and physiology, and auditory perception. A sound card is required to make maximal use of this web site. Additional details are provided in each chapter.

CHAPTER 1
The Worlds We Hear, An Introduction
Theories of Hearing: Glen Wever and Georg von Bekesy
Learning about the experimental method

PART I:  THE AUDITORY STIMULUS

CHAPTER 2
Sinusoids, The Basic Sound
Generate a sinusoid
CHAPTER 3
Sound Transmission
Sound wave propagation
Standing waves
CHAPTER 4
Complex Stimuli
Generate complex sounds
CHAPTER 5
Sound Analysis
Filtering sound
Two-tones generate a non-linear tonal perception

PART II: PERIPHERAL AUDITORY ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY

CHAPTER 6
The Outer and Middle Ears
CHAPTER 7
Structure of the Inner Ear and Its Mechanical Response
CHAPTER 8
Peripheral Auditory Nervous System and Hair Cells
CHAPTER 9
The Neural Response and the Auditory Code

PART III: AUDITORY PERCEPTION OF SIMPLE SOUNDS

CHAPTER 10
Auditory Sensitivity
CHAPTER 11
Masking
CHAPTER 12
Binaural Hearing
CHAPTER 13
Loudness and Pitch
CHAPTER 14
Auditory Perception and Sound Source Determination
CHAPTER 15
The Central Auditory Nervous System
CHAPTER 16
The Abnormal Auditory System