Summary: | "Developmental Psychoacoustics," with chapters contributed by experts in the areas of hearing, perceptual development, and psychophysics, emphasizes the importance of understanding the sensory capacities of infants and children. It presents current research in developmental acoustics, offers interpretations for the findings, and encourages increased communication among related fields. /// Included are discussions of such topics as spatial hearing; spatial vision; pitch perception; speech perception; basic auditory processes in infants and children; and the relationship between developmental psychoacoustics and perceptual development, auditory nervous system development, and pediatric audiology. /// This volume will be of interest to professionals involved in clinical audiology, speech perception, developmental neurobiology, and psychophysics. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
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