CSD 303 – FUNDAMENTALS OF HEARING

KEY TERMS

(1) The following terms are important to this course and you should be able to answer objective questions about all of them.
(2) Several terms from each chapter have been starred (**). These are of special importance and you may be asked to define
them on an exam.

LOVEN – Chapter 4
Absolute threshold **
Audibility
Minimum audible field / Minimum audible pressure
Psychometric function **
Threshold of audibility

LOVEN – Chapter 5
Direct magnitude estimation / Direct magnitude production
Equal loudness contour **
Loudness **
Phons
Sones

LOVEN – Chapter 6
ΔI
ΔS
Difference limen **
Just noticeable difference
Method of constant stimuli
Weber Fraction
Weber’s Law **

LOVEN – Chapter 7
Amount of masking
Masker
Masking
Signal
Upward spread of masking **
LOVEN – Chapter 8
Band-pass filter
Center frequency
Critical band **
Low-pass / High-pass filter
Tonotopic organization **

LOVEN – Chapter 11
Temporal integration **
Time-intensity trade

Valente – Chapter 4
Method of limits **
Method of constant stimuli
Method of adjustment
Staircase method