Cover -- Contents -- 1 Ecological Psychoacoustics: Introduction and History -- HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- THE AVAILABLE TECHNOLOGY -- DOMINANT PSYCHOLOGICAL PARADIGMS -- EVOLUTION AND AUDITION -- ECOLOGICAL, EXTERNAL, AND INTERNAL VALIDITY -- PSYCHOACOUSTICS VERSUS AUDITORY COGNITION -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- 2 Auditory Perceptual Organization Inside and Outside the Laboratory -- HOW DOES PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION -- EFFECT ON EASE OF SELECTION -- EFFECT ON PITCH AND TIMBRE -- EFFECT ON TEMPORAL ORDER JUDGMENT AND RHYTHM -- EFFECT ON PERCEIVED SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION -- REGULARITIES USED BY THE AUDITORY SYSTEM FOR SCENE ANALYSIS -- HARMONICITY -- AMPLITUDE VARIATIONS OVER TIME -- LOCATION -- FREQUENCY -- PITCH -- TIMBRE -- SIMILARITY OF LEVEL -- HIGHER ORDER COMMONALITIES -- GROUPING AND SELECTIVE ATTENTION -- THE HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITION MODEL -- MISMATCH NEGATIVITY USING ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY AND MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY -- STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF NATURAL SOUNDS -- CORRELATION -- INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS -- COMPUTATIONAL MODELS -- NEURAL SUBSTRATE OF GROUPING -- MULTIPLE NEURAL LEVELS? -- NEURAL INSTANTIATION: SYNCHRONY OF FIRING -- AUTOMATICITY AND INNATENESS -- PERCEPTUAL GROUPING OF DEGRADED SIGNALS -- MULTIMODAL GROUPING -- SUMMARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 3 Attention and Timing -- THEORETICAL OVERVIEW: A BIOLOGICAL ORIENTATION -- BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- ENTRAINMENT AND ATTENDING -- AN EXEMPLAR ENTRAINMENT MODEL -- ADAPTIVE ORGANISM -- SUMMARY OF THEORETICAL OVERVIEW -- DYNAMIC ATTENDING IN DIFFERENT TASKS -- TIME ESTIMATION AND ANTICIPATORY ATTENDING -- TIME DISCRIMINATION AND EXPECTANCY VIOLATIONS -- TARGET IDENTIFICATION TASKS AND REACTIVE ATTENDING -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 4 Auditory Motion and Localization -- STATIONARY LOCALIZATION -- HORIZON AND AZIMUTH -- ELEVATION -- DISTANCE -- DEVELOPMENT.

MOTION PERCEPTION -- AUDITORY LOOMING -- ECHOLOCATION -- REFERENCES -- 5 From Gibson's Fire to Gestalts A Bridge-Building Theory of Perceptual Objecthood -- THE IMPORTANCE OF OBJECTHOOD -- THE GESTALT PERSPECTIVE -- THE SPATIAL METAPHOR -- MODERN THEORIES OF AUDITORY OBJECTHOOD -- SUMMARY: COMPETING PERSPECTIVES -- HOW TO THINK ABOUT OBJECTHOOD -- PERCEPTUAL NUMEROSITY AND THE THEORY OF INDISPENSABLE ATTRIBUTES -- THE IMPLIED MAPPING -- THE QUANTIFICATION OF OBJECTS -- VISUAL QUANTIFICATION -- AUDITORY QUANTIFICATION -- AN EXPERIMENT -- A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF AUDITORY GROUPING -- THE ECOLOGY OF CIRCULAR TONE FLOWS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- 6 Ecological Psychoacoustics and Auditory Displays Hearing, Grouping, and Meaning Making -- BRIEF HISTORY AND TERMINOLOGY -- WHAT DESIGNERS NEED TO KNOW: AUDITORY DISPLAY SUBTASKS -- PERCEPTION -- STREAM ANALYSIS -- WHAT HAS TRADITIONAL PSYCHOACOUSTICS CONTRIBUTED TO AUDITORY DISPLAY? -- A FRAMEWORK: VOCABULARY, METHODS, AND LIMITS -- RIGOROUS EXPERIMENTAL METHODS -- LOUDNESS -- MASKING -- PITCH -- INTERACTING DIMENSIONS -- TEMPO AND RHYTHM -- TIMBRE -- PAIN AND FATIGUE -- SPATIAL LOCATION -- STREAMING -- OTHER ASPECTS OF PERCEPTION -- TRAINING AND PRACTICE EFFECTS -- WHAT HAVE BEEN THE LIMITATIONS OF TRADITIONAL PSYCHOACOUSTICS (IN TERMS OF AUDITORY DISPLAYS)? -- SOUND ATTRIBUTES -- LISTENING ENVIRONMENT -- HOW PARAMETERS INTERACT WITHIN A SOUND -- LIMITATIONS IN TASKS AND COGNITIVE DEMANDS -- METAPHORS AND CONCEPTUAL MAPPINGS -- RIGID EXPERIMENTAL METHODS AND LANGUAGE -- WHAT HAS RECENT RESEARCH INTO HIGHER LEVEL PHENOMENA OFFERED TO AUDITORY DISPLAY? -- GIBSONIAN THINKING IN GENERAL -- COMPLEX, DYNAMIC (ECOLOGICAL) SOUNDS -- ACOUSTIC ECOLOGIES FOR OVERALL DESIGN -- METAPHORS AND CONCEPTUAL MAPPINGS -- ALTERNATIVE EXPERIMENTAL METHODS.

WHERE ARE WE NOW AND WHERE DO WE NEED TO GO VIS-À-VIS AUDITORY DISPLAY? -- SYNERGIES BETWEEN AUDITORY DISPLAY AND ECOLOGICAL PSYCHOACOUSTICS RESEARCH -- REFERENCES -- 7 Environmental Acoustics: Psychological Assessment of Noise -- PSYCHOPHYSICAL METHODS AND PHYSICAL METRICS FOR THE EVALUATION OF NOISE -- STUDIES OF NOISE CRITERIA -- CATEGORY SCALE -- CATEGORY SCALE (ONE JUDGMENT BY ONE SUBJECT) -- CATEGORY SPLITTING PROCEDURE -- FREQUENCY OF THE RESPONSE -- CONTINUOUS JUDGMENTS BY CATEGORY -- THE EFFECT OF CULTURAL AND SOCIAL FACTORS AS A FRAME OF REFERENCE -- THE EFFECT OF THE SUBJECTIVE MEANING OF SOUND SOURCES -- THE EFFECT OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 8 Ecological Developmental Psychoacoustics -- DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOACOUSTICS AND THE PICKUP OF ACOUSTIC INFORMATION -- DEVELOPMENT OF FREQUENCY, INTENSITY, AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTION -- DEVELOPMENT OF SOUND LOCALIZATION -- DEVELOPMENT OF SOUND SOURCE SEGREGATION -- DEVELOPMENT OF LISTENING UNDER UNCERTAIN CONDITIONS -- DEVELOPMENT OF INTERSENSORY PERCEPTION -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACOUSTIC INFORMATION PICKUP: CONCLUSIONS -- AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT -- ACTIVE AUDITORY LEARNING -- INCREASING SPECIFICITY AND ECONOMY OF AUDITORY PERCEPTION -- THE DISCOVERY OF ORDER IN THE STREAM OF ACOUSTIC INFORMATION -- INCREASING FLEXIBILITY OF AUDITORY PERCEPTION -- AUDITORY PERCEPTUAL LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT: CONCLUSIONS -- GENERAL CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 9 Perceiving Articulatory Events: Lessons for an Ecological Psychoacoustics -- LESSON 1: WE HEAR EVENTS, NOT SOUNDS -- HEARING SPEECH EVENTS -- HEARING NONSPEECH EVENTS -- LESSON 2: TO UNDERSTAND INFORMATION, UNDERSTAND EVENTS -- INFORMATION FOR ARTICULATORY EVENTS -- INFORMATION FOR NONSPEECH EVENTS -- LESSON 3: AUDITION SERVES A MULTIMODAL BRAIN -- MULTIMODAL SPEECH PERCEPTION -- MULTIMODAL NONSPEECH PERCEPTION.

CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 10 Interacting Perceptual Dimensions -- THE INTERACTION OF AUDITORY DIMENSIONS -- DIMENSIONAL INTERACTION -- DIMENSIONAL INTERACTION SUMMARY -- MULTISENSORY INTERACTION -- A UNIFIED SPATIAL REPRESENTATION -- BEHAVIORAL EVIDENCE OF MULTI-SENSORY INTERACTION -- Invariant Environmental Cues -- PHYSIOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF MULTISENSORY INTERACTION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 11 Pitch and Pitch Structures -- INTRODUCTION -- PERCEIVING SINGLE TONES -- THE BASICS OF PITCH -- BASIC PITCH PERCEPTION -- PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALES OF PITCH -- SUMMARY -- PERCEIVING PITCH STRUCTURES -- ORGANIZATION OF PITCH IN SPACE -- ORGANIZATION OF PITCH IN TIME -- ORGANIZATION OF PITCH IN SPACE AND TIME -- SUMMARY AND FINAL THOUGHTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- 12 Loudness -- METHODS FOR MEASURING LOUDNESS -- PAIRED COMPARISONS -- MAGNITUDE SCALING -- CATEGORY RATING -- LOUDNESS MATCHING AND CROSS-MODALITY MATCHING -- BIAS IN LOUDNESS MEASUREMENT -- PHYSIOLOGICAL CORRELATES OF LOUDNESS -- ECOLOGICAL LOUDNESS: SOME AREAS OF INQUIRY -- LOUDNESS CONSTANCY -- THE LOUDNESS OF DYNAMICALLY CHANGING SOUNDS -- SOUND SOURCE SEGREGATION AND SELECTIVE ATTENTION -- THE ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE ACOUSTIC REFLEX -- UNCOMFORTABLY LOUD SOUNDS -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Index.