Fundamentals of Hearing, Third Edition: An Introduction [Hardcover]

William A. Yost (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 012772690X | ISBN-13: 978-0127726908 | Publication Date: January 25, 1994 | Edition: 3

The Third Edition of Yost's successful introductory book on hearing, this edition completely updates and expands the fundamental facts about hearing-the stimulus of sound, the anatomy and physiology of the auditory system, and the perception of sound.

Complete up-to-date edition of Yost's successful First and Second Editions, including changes in the field since 1985
Covers both physics and physiology in equal measure rather than focusing on just one aspect
Written at a level for undergraduates with only a basic knowledge of mathematics and science
Full use of appendices, glossaries, indexes, and supplemental material
Updated in terms of organization to reflect changes in the hearing sciences since the Second Edition was published in 1985

Editorial Reviews

Review

From the Reviews of the Second Edition
This textbook is a thorough compilation of information and facts about the science of hearing....Various topics are introduced and developed carefully, with supplemental material to help students understand basic concepts relative to audition and hearing....The book is written in a scientific manner, with facts thoroughly documented and referenced...This small volume presents a giant accumulation of information.
-Jerry L. Northers in THE VOLTA REVIEW
The author has produced a very readable, up-to-date textbook which is understandable by students with little previous exposure to either hearing or research....I highly recommend this book to instructors who are faced with the difficult task of providing an overview of the field of hearing research to students with little background in the sciences and mathematics.
-Glenis R. Long, Purdue University, in the JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

From the Back Cover

In its new Fourth Edition, Fundamentals of Hearing: An Introduction covers the subject of
hearing from sound to sensation, including the structure and function of the auditory system.
Written at an introductory level, and requiring a minimal background in math and science,
Fundamentals of Hearing is intended for students in fields concerned with sensory systems,
perception, the nervous system, human and animal communication, and speech and hearing
sciences and disorders. Fundamentals of Hearing will also assist any professional in the field
of hearing in finding key facts and data about the auditory system.

The new Fourth Edition offers sixteen chapters, with 25 percent new information, covering:
* The Auditory Stimulus
* Peripheral Auditory Anatomy and Physiology
* Auditory Perception of Simple Sounds
* Complex Sound Processing
* The Central Auditory Nervous System
* And, a new chapter, The Abnormal Auditory System
Six appendices cover:
* Sinusoids and Trigonometry
* Logarithms
* Fourier Analysis
* Psychophysics
* Neural Anatomy and Physiology
* Techniques and Tools Used to Study Hearing
Instructors: accompanying Instructor's Workbook and CD-ROM also available - contact your
bookstore or Academic Press for more information. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 326 pages
• Publisher: Academic Press; 3 edition (January 25, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 012772690X
• ISBN-13: 978-0127726908
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,367,828 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Fundamentals of Hearing - a good review - a good plae to start, January 21, 2009

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L. Colton "LC" (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fundamentals of Hearing, Third Edition: An Introduction (Hardcover)

Yost's "Fundamentals of Hearing" was recommended by a more advanced acoustics reference, as a basic reference. I was able to locate the edition third edition (1994) in a library. I found it to be very comprehensive. It answered many of many questions that other "comprehensive" acoustic references (including one published 2008)appeared to skip over. I plan to purchase a later edition of this book for my personal library, as there is a fourth edition (2000) and a fifth edition (2006.)

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars poor basics and too much air, April 10, 2005

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Michael Lippert - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fundamentals of Hearing, Fourth Edition: An Introduction (Hardcover)

I got the book from a friend and iam very disappointed. The book covers what all the other books cover too, but the author uses three quarters of the letters only to fill space. The content could be much more compressed, also are the figures poorly made or just copied from papers. But a much larger problem is, that the author seems not to have any idea what he is talking about in terms of physics. The formulas that are given use wrong abbreviations, mixes that abbreviations (uses T and t for time only 5 cm apart) and gives the formulas not necessarly showing that he knows how to use them correctly. If you want a good book about the basics of hearing, buy another one.