Auditory cognition and human performance : research and applications /: research and applications. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Carryl L. Baldwin.
• Other Names: Baldwin, Carryl L
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Hearing: The Neglected Sense -- Introduction -- The Battle of the Senses: Vision versus Audition -- Early Human Performance Research -- Early Developments in Modern Cognitive Psychology -- Sensation and Perception Research -- Scope of This Book -- Characteristics of Auditory Processing -- The Auditory Channel -- Mental Workload -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 2 The Auditory World -- Introduction -- Sources of Sound -- Nonverbal Sounds -- Sources of Sound in Work Environments -- Auditory Warnings -- Nonverbal Alarms -- Verbal Warnings -- Auditory Displays -- Sonification -- Verbal Displays -- Summary -- Sources of Sound in the Cockpit -- Proliferation of Auditory Avionics Displays -- Auditory Avionics Alarms -- Radio Communications (Radiotelephony) -- In-Vehicle Auditory Telematics -- Cellular Phones -- Hands Free and Voice Activated -- Collision Warning Systems -- Displays for Maintenance of Separation -- Lane Departure Warnings -- Auditory Route Guidance Systems -- Voice Guidance Formats -- Infotainment Systems -- Sounds in Medical Care Environments -- Auditory Devices for the Visually Impaired -- Summary -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 3 Auditory Pattern Perception: The Auditory Processing System -- Introduction -- Characteristics of Sound Perception -- The Sound Stimulus -- Frequency -- Amplitude -- Frequency-Amplitude Interactions -- Timbre -- Peripheral and Central Auditory Pathways -- Peripheral Auditory System -- Central Auditory Pathways -- Auditory Event-Related Potentials -- Cerebral Lateralization -- Music Processing -- Sex Differences in Speech and Music -- Essential Auditory Processes -- Sound Localization -- Auditory Space Perception -- Auditory Scene Analysis -- Auditory Stream Segregation -- Summary -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 4 Auditory Cognition: The Role of Attention and Cognition in Auditory Processing -- Introduction -- Attention -- Early Attention Research -- Dichotic Listening Tasks -- Filter Theories -- Broadbent's Early Filter Model -- Treisman's Attenuation Theory -- Late Selection Models -- Capacity Models -- The Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention -- Event-Related Potential Indices of Auditory Attention -- The Information-Processing Approach -- Processing Codes -- Processing Operations -- Bottom-Up and Top-Down Control of Processing -- Atkinson and Shiffrin's Modal Model -- Echoic Memory Capacity -- Echoic Persistence -- Short-Term Auditory Store -- Long-Term Auditory Store -- Emerging Developments in Echoic Memory Research -- Implications of Persistence -- Working Memory -- Short-Term Memory -- Modality Effect -- Suffix Effect -- Articulatory Rehearsal -- Acoustic Confusions -- Working Memory Components -- Phonological Loop -- Phonological Store Capacity -- Serial versus Parallel Processing -- Artificial Neural Networks -- Summary -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 5 Theories and Techniques of Mental Workload Assessment -- Introduction -- Limited-Capacity Models -- Resource Theories -- Multiple Resource Theory -- Criticisms of Resource Theory -- Working Memory Processes -- Multiple Resources -- Multiple Networks -- Mental Workload: Key Constructs -- Time -- Operator State and Strategies -- Compensatory Strategies -- Mental Workload Assessment -- Sensitivity and Intrusion -- Behavioral Task Measures -- Primary Task Measures -- Secondary Task Measures -- Physiological Measures -- Neurophysiological Techniques -- ERP Investigations -- Subjective Techniques -- Summary -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 6 Auditory Tasks in Cognitive Research -- Introduction -- Historical Beginnings -- Dichotic Listening Tasks -- Encoding and Retrieval Processes -- Auditory Task Indices of Working Memory -- Working Memory Capacity: Complex Span -- Listening Span -- Auditory n-Back Tasks -- Psychological Refractory Period -- Mental Workload Assessment -- Auditory Secondary Tasks -- Delayed Digit Recall -- Mental Arithmetic -- Auditory ERP Indices of Mental Workload -- Auditory Oddball Paradigm -- Irrelevant Probe Task -- Auditory Neuropsychological Tests -- Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task -- Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test -- Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery -- Speech-Sounds Reception Test -- Seashore Rhythm Test -- Neurophysiological Investigations -- Prepulse Inhibition -- Event-Related Potentials -- Distractibility -- Diagnostic Uses of MMN -- Auditory Tasks in Cognitive Aging Research -- Summary -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 7 Nonverbal Sounds and Workload -- Introduction -- Auditory Perceptual Organization -- Acoustic Regularity -- Auditory Object Recognition -- Information-Processing Approaches -- Ecological Acoustics -- Music -- Music Defined -- Musical Structure -- Octaves -- Contour -- Musical Pitch Perception -- Musical Knowledge -- Music Universals -- Music and Performance -- Background Music -- Physical Performance -- Theories of the Relationship of Music to Exercise -- Music and Cognition -- Music in Industry -- Intensity -- Tempo -- Individual Differences -- The Mozart Effect -- Arousal and Preference -- Musical Training -- Noise -- Early Noise Research -- The Broadbent-Poulton Debate -- Resource Theory Framework -- Task Prioritization -- Everyday Noise Levels -- Irrelevant Speech and Visual-Verbal Processing -- Chronic Noise Exposure -- Workplace Noise -- Aircraft Noise and Children -- Auditory Vigilance -- Noise and Vigilance -- Summary -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 8 Mental Workload and Speech Processing -- Introduction -- Chapter Overview -- Speech-Processing Challenges -- Segmentation -- Cues to Segmentation -- Variability -- Phonological Level -- Coarticulation -- Lexical Selection -- Sensory-Level Effects -- Cognitive-Level Effects -- Sensory-Cognitive Interactions -- Syntactical Level -- Approaches to Speech-Processing Theory -- Single- versus Dual-Mechanism Theories -- Single or Multiple Verbal Working Memory Systems -- Models of Word Recognition -- Parameters Influencing Mental Workload -- Acoustic Factors -- Presentation Level or Intensity -- Speech Pace -- Speech Rate -- Prosody -- Synthetic Speech -- Acoustic Environment -- Hearing Impairment -- Contextual Factors -- Speaker Familiarity -- Applications -- Mobile Phones and Driving -- Air Traffic Control Communications -- Summary -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 9 Cross-Modal Influences in Sound and Speech -- Introduction -- Verbal and Visual Codes -- Language by Ear and by Eye -- Evidence for Separate Codes -- Physiological Evidence -- Primacy and Recency in Serial Recall -- Neuropsychological Evidence -- Time-Sharing Text versus Speech -- Cross-Modal Links -- Audiovisual Speech -- Cross-Modal Spatial Attention -- Spatial-Linguistic Interactions -- Redundant Target Effect -- Time-Sharing Auditory and Visual Tasks -- Perfect Time-Sharing: A Myth -- Summary -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 10 Auditory Processing and the Older Adult -- Introduction -- Age-Related Changes in Auditory Processing -- Perceptual/Cognitive Contributions -- Age-Related Changes in Hearing -- Presbycusis -- Central Presbycusis -- Pure-Tone Threshold Elevation -- Central Auditory-Processing Changes -- Gender and Auditory-Processing Disorder -- Age-Related Cognitive Changes -- Generalized Slowing -- Working Memory Reductions -- Inhibitory Deficits -- Age-Related Changes in Speech Processing -- Temporal Processing Deficits -- Adverse Listening Conditions -- Noise -- Reverberation -- Speech Signal Quality -- Presentation Level or Intensity -- Speech Rate -- Synthetic Speech -- Under Divided Attention -- Strategy Differences and Compensation -- Strategy Differences -- Compensatory Mechanisms -- Age-Related Design -- Summary -- Concluding Remarks -- ch. 11 Auditory Display Design -- Introduction -- Advantages of Auditory Displays -- Auditory Source -- Brief Communications -- Short Retention Intervals -- Time-Critical Signaling -- Continuously Changing Information -- Under High Visual Load -- Displays Requiring Verbal Responses -- Auditory Display Challenges -- Auditory Overload -- Auditory Preemption -- Psychoacoustics of Auditory Displays -- Detection -- Identification and Discrimination -- Localization -- Spatial Audio Cues -- Spatial Auditory Alerts -- Auditory Warnings -- Design of Warnings -- Urgency Mapping -- Urgency in Context -- Warning Types -- Nonverbal Warnings -- Verbal Warnings -- Data Sonification -- Auditory Displays in Complex Environments -- Aviation -- Flight Deck Warnings -- ATC Communications -- Surface Transportation -- Collision Warning Systems -- In-Vehicle Route Guidance Systems -- Fatigue and Lane Departure Detection Systems -- Medical Environments -- Nuisance Alarms -- Summary -- Concluding Remarks.
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 152.1/5; Listening; Auditory perception; Cognition; Ability; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Industrial Health & Safety; PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology; Ability; Auditory perception; Cognition; Listening; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466553545; 1466553545
• Related ISBNs: 9780415325943; 0415325943
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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