(2 lectures) (Prerequisite: Undergraduate courses in perception or sound or neuroscience and permission of instructor.) (Restrictions: For U3 and graduate students.) Auditory perception and its neural correlates, covering acoustics, auditory anatomy and neurobiology, and the neural correlates of perception of loudness, pitch, spatial location, frequency specificity, musical, speech sounds, and segregation of component sounds in multi-sound environments in both humans and animals.

Instructor: Evan Balaban
Time: W 14:35-17:25
Location: STBIO N7/14

Content:  The topics include the following:

A. Structure of the peripheral auditory system.
B. Properties of sound and how they are picked up by the auditory system.
C. Basic auditory dimensions (pitch, loudness, location) and how they are derived from the auditory signal.
D. Auditory scene analysis (decomposition of mixtures of sounds to determine the properties and locations of the individual sounds in the mixture).
E.  Speech perception.
F.  Music perception.