A Conceptionary for Speech & Hearing in the Context of Machines and Experimentation

Afferent acoustic pathways
(From Handbook of Experimental Psychology edited by S.S. Stevens.
© 1951 John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Used with permission of John Wiley & Sons Inc.)
Cross-section of the cochlear canal
(From Handbook of Experimental Psychology edited by S.S. Stevens.
© John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Used with permission of John Wiley & Sons Inc.)
Peak clipping
Cross-section of the organ of Corti
(From Handbook of Experimental Psychology edited by S.S. Stevens.
© 1951 John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Used with permission of John Wiley & Sons Inc.)
Sectional diagram of the ear
(From Experiments in Hearing, by Georg von Békésy.
© 1960 McGraw-Hill Book Company.
Used with permission of McGraw-Hill Book Company.)
Cross-section of the cochlea spiral
(From Experiments in Hearing, by Georg von Békésy.
© 1960 McGraw-Hill Book Company.
Used with permission of McGraw-Hill Book Company.)
Differential intensity threshold versus frequency & intensity
(From Handbook of Experimental Psychology edited by S.S. Stevens.
© 1951 John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Used with permission of John Wiley & Sons Inc.)
Differential frequency threshold versus frequency & intensity (From Handbook of Experimental Psychology edited by S.S. Stevens.
© John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Used with permission of John Wiley & Sons Inc.)
Thresholds of audibility and feeling
(From Handbook of Experimental Psychology edited by S.S. Stevens.
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Loudness as a function of intensity and frequency
(From Handbook of Experimental Psychology edited by S.S. Stevens.
© 1951 John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Used with permission of John Wiley & Sons Inc.)
Mels versus frequency (linear and log)
Loudness in phons plotted against frequency & intensity in db re. 0.0002 dynes/cm²
(From Theory and problems of acoustics, by William W. Seto.
© 1971 McGraw-Hill Book Company.
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Equal volume contours for pure tones
(From Handbook of Experimental Psychology edited by S.S. Stevens.
© 1951 John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Used with permission of John Wiley & Sons Inc.)
Relationship between sones (logarithmic scale) and phons (linear scale)
(From Handbook of Experimental Psychology edited by S.S. Stevens.
©: 1951 John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Used with permission of John Wiley & Sons Inc.)
Hearing loss plotted by age
Broad band spectrogram of the eleven vowels of General American
(From: The calculation of vowel resonances, and an electrical vocal tract
by H.K. Dunn 1950, J. Acoust. Soc. Amer., 22, pp 740-753)
The vowel triangle showing locations of vowels and diphthongs
(From Handbook of Experimental Psychology edited by S.S. Stevens.
© 1951 John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Used with permission of John Wiley & Sons Inc.)

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