Psychoacoustics

Psychoacoustics is the study of subjective human perception of sounds. Effectively, it is the study of psychology of acoustical perception.

Psychoacoustics and music

Psychoacoustics includes many subjects and produces discoveries which are relevant to music and its composition and performance, and some musicians, such as Benjamin Boretz, consider the results or some of the results of psychoacoustics to be meaningful only in a musical context!.

Related Topics:
Music - Composition - Performance - Benjamin Boretz

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• Bark scale, Equivalent rectangular bandwidth (ERB), Mel scale and other scales
• Loudness, that is, perceived volume, Bel, sone
• Perception of non-existent sounds, such as, missing fundamental frequency, and other auditory illusions. Compare to telephone which transmits 400 Hz to 3400 Hz.
• Auditory Scene Analysis (incl. 3D-sound perception, localisation, etc.)