CHAPTER 11: Hearing

I. The Perceptual Process for Hearing

A. Physical Aspects of Sound
B. Sound as Pressure Changes
C. Pure Tones
D. Complex Tones and Frequency Spectra
II. Perceptual Aspects of Sound
A. Thresholds and Loudness
B. Pitch
C. Timbre
III. From Pressure Changes to Electricity
A. The Outer Ear
B. The Middle Ear
C. The Inner Ear

A. Perceiving Two Sounds That Reach the Ears at Different

Times
B. Architectural Acoustics
V. Auditory Organization: Scene Analysis
A. The Problem of Auditory Scene Analysis
B. Separating the Sources
VI. Auditory Organization: Perceiving Meter
A. Metrical Structure and the Mind
B. Metrical Structure and Movement
C. Metrical Structure and Language
V. Returning to the Coffee Shop
VI. Connections Between Hearing and Vision
A. Hearing and Vision: Perceptions
B. Hearing and Vision: Physiology

IV. Vibration of the Basilar Membrane

A. Bksy Discovers How the Basilar Membrane Vibrates
B. Evidence for Place Theory
C. A Practical Application
D. Updating Bksy: The Cochlear Amplifi er

CHAPTER 13: Speech Perception

I. The Speech Stimulus
A. The Acoustic Signal
B. Basic Units of Speech

E. Complex Tones and Vibration of the Basilar Membrane

II. The Variable Relationship Between Phonemes and the

Acoustic Signal

V. The Physiology of Pitch Perception

A. Variability From Context

A. Pitch and the Ear

B. Variability From Different Speakers

B. Pitch and the Brain

III. Perceiving Phonemes

VI. How to Damage Your Hair Cells

A. Categorical Perception

A. Presbycusis

B. Information Provided by the Face

B. Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

C. Information From Our Knowledge of Language

IV. Perceiving Words

CHAPTER 12: Auditory Localization and Organization

A. Perceiving Words in Sentences

I. Auditory Localization

B. Perceiving Breaks Between a Sequence of Words

A. Binaural Cues for Sound Localization

C. Taking Speaker Characteristics Into Account

B. Monaural Cue for Localization

V. Speech Perception and the Brain

II. The Physiology of Auditory Localization

A. Cortical Locations of Speech Perception

A. The Auditory Pathway and Cortex

B. Reconstructing Speech From the Cortical Signal

B. The Jeffress Neural Coincidence Model

VI. Speech Perception and Action

C. Broad ITD Tuning Curves in Mammals

VII. DEVELOPMENTAL DIMENSION: Infant Speech Perception

D. Localization in Area A1 and the Auditory Belt Area

A. The Categorical Perception of Phonemes

E. Moving Beyond the Temporal Lobe: Auditory Where (and

What) Pathways

B. Learning the Sounds of a Language

IV. Hearing Inside Rooms

CHAPTER 14: The Cutaneous Senses

I. Overview of the Cutaneous System

A. The Skin

B. How Odor Objects Are Represented

B. Mechanoreceptors

VII. The Perception of Flavor

C. Pathways From Skin to Cortex

A. Taste and Olfaction Meet in the Mouth and Nose

D. The Somatosensory Cortex

B. Taste and Olfaction Meet in the Nervous System

E. The Plasticity of Cortical Body Maps

C. Flavor Is Infl uenced by a Persons Expectations

II. Perceiving Details

D. Flavor Is Infl uenced by Food Intake: Sensory-Specifi c

Satiety

A. Receptor Mechanisms for Tactile Acuity

B. Cortical Mechanisms for Tactile Acuity
IV. Perceiving Vibration
V. Perceiving Texture
VI. Perceiving Objects
A. Identifying Objects by Haptic Exploration
B. The Physiology of Tactile Object Perception
VII. Pain
A. Questioning the Direct Pathway Model of Pain
B. The Gate Control Model
C. Cognition and Pain
D. The Brain and Pain
VIII. The Effect of Observing Touch and Pain in Others

CHAPTER 15: The Chemical Senses

I. The Taste System
A. Functions of Taste
B. Basic Taste Qualities
II. The Neural Code for Taste Quality
A. Structure of the Taste System
B. Distributed Coding
C. Specifi city Coding
III. Individual Differences in Tasting
IV. The Olfactory System
A. Detecting Odors
B. Identifying Odors
V. Analyzing Odorants: The Mucosa and Olfactory Bulb
A. The Puzzle of Olfactory Quality
B. The Olfactory Mucosa
C. How Olfactory Receptor Neurons Respond to Odorants
D. The Search for Order in the Olfactory Bulb
VI. Representing Odors in the Cortex
A. How Odorants Are Represented in the Piriform Cortex

VIII. The Proust Effect: Memories, Emotions, and Smell