An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing

Brian Moore received his B.A. in Natural Sciences in 1968 and his Ph.D. in Psychoacoustics in 1971, both from the University of Cambridge, England. He is currently Professor of Auditory Perception in the University of Cambridge. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York, and the University of California at Berkeley and was a van Houten Fellow at the Institute for Perception Research, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. His research interests are: the perception of sound; mechanisms of normal hearing and hearing impairments; relationship of auditory abilities to speech perception; design of signal processing hearing aids for sensorineural hearing loss; methods for fitting hearing aids to the individual; design and specification of high-fidelity sound-reproducing equipment; perception of music and of musical instruments. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, and an Honorary Fellow of the Belgian Society of Audiology and the British Society of Hearing Aid Audiologists. He is a member of the Experimental Psychology Society (U.K.), the British Society of Audiology, The American Speech-Language Hearing Association, The American Auditory Society, the Audio Engineering Society, the Association for Research in Otolaryngology and the American Academy of Audiology. He is President of the Association of Independent Hearing Healthcare Professionals (UK). He has written or edited 15 books and over 500 scientific papers and book chapters. He has twice received the Littler Prize of the British Society of Audiology. In 2003 he was awarded the Acoustical Society of America Silver Medal in physiological and psychological acoustics. In 2004 he received the first "International Award in Hearing" from the American Academy of Audiology. In 2008 he received the Award of MeritA" from the Association for Research in Otolaryngology and the Hugh Knowles Prize for Distinguished Achievement from Northwestern University. In 2010 he gave the Distinguished Heyser memorial Lecture to the Audio Engineering Society. He is wine steward of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Preface to the Fifth Edition

The nature of sound and the structure and function of the auditory system
Absolute thresholds
Frequency selectivity, masking and the critical band
The perception of loudness
Temporal processing in the auditory system
Pitch perception
Space perception
Auditory pattern and object perception
Speech perception
Practical applications

References
Glossary
Index