psychoacousticiann.
/ˌsʌɪkəʊəˌkuːˈstɪʃn/, /ˌsʌɪkəʊˌakuːˈstɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkoʊəˌkuˈstɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌsaɪkoʊˌæˌkuˈstɪʃ(ə)n/ An expert or specialist in psychoacoustics.
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the world > health and disease > healing > audiology or audiometry > [noun] > practitioner of
audiometrist1936
audiologist1941
audiometrician1946
psychoacoustician1955
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > [noun] > psychoacoustics > person
psychoacoustician1955
1955 Acta Psychologica 11 434 Physiological irrelevance of the octave became the general conviction of both the neuro-physiologists of hearing and the psychoacousticians.
1977 Rolling Stone 30 June 41/2 Next I met David Wessel, a psychoacoustician (one who studies human perception of sound) from Michigan State University.
2000 Toronto Star (Nexis) 12 Oct. Psychoacousticians have long known that our hearing system only reacts to a relatively small portion of a complex audio waveform.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1955