Definition of psychoacoustics in English:
psychoacoustics
plural noun ˌsʌɪkəʊəˈkuːstɪksˌsīkōəˈko͞ostiks
treated as singular The branch of psychology concerned with the perception of sound and its physiological effects.
Example sentencesExamples
- Until recently, psychoacoustics has devoted more attention to the behaviour of the peripheral auditory system than to the details of cognitive processing.
- Music is a multidimensional and hierarchical stimulus and can be explored from the psychoacoustics of a single tone to the perception of interrelationships between sections of large-scale works.
- Psychoacoustics explains the subjective response to everything we hear. It is the ultimate arbitrator in acoustical concerns because it is only our response to sound that fundamentally matters.
- This is the science of psychoacoustics, which deals with the effects of sound on our nervous system.
Derivatives
adjective
We can apply for example psychoacoustic tests to Watts' simulation of these 15 regions, get very similar results as we get applying psychoacoustic tests to human auditory perception.
Example sentencesExamples
- Moreover, in addition to the well-known superiority of the right ear for language tasks, there is evidence of ear differences for simple psychoacoustic tasks such as frequency discrimination.
- Layer 3 uses perceptual audio coding and psychoacoustic compression to remove all superfluous information (more specifically, the redundant and irrelevant parts of a sound signal).
- He has put together a detailed model of about 15 regions that deal with auditory processing, and has applied psychoacoustic tests of the model, comparing it to human auditory perception.
- Cheaper speaker systems have used psychoacoustic methods to fool the ear into thinking sounds are being produced from virtual locations surrounding the listener.
Definition of psychoacoustics in US English:
psychoacoustics
plural nounˌsīkōəˈko͞ostiks
treated as singular The branch of psychology concerned with the perception of sound and its physiological effects.
Example sentencesExamples
- This is the science of psychoacoustics, which deals with the effects of sound on our nervous system.
- Until recently, psychoacoustics has devoted more attention to the behaviour of the peripheral auditory system than to the details of cognitive processing.
- Music is a multidimensional and hierarchical stimulus and can be explored from the psychoacoustics of a single tone to the perception of interrelationships between sections of large-scale works.
- Psychoacoustics explains the subjective response to everything we hear. It is the ultimate arbitrator in acoustical concerns because it is only our response to sound that fundamentally matters.