Saturday, September 16th, 2006
Psychoacoustics
Psychoacoustics, also known as the study of sound perception. Your brain has the ability to do a lot with sounds, including localisation (determine where a sound is coming from), perception of distance, and something called the Cocktail Party Effect. This defines how sound is perceived when your drunk. Haha. Nah that’s not true, it’s the ability to isolate a particular sound amongst many others, eg. in a busy room.
The Doppler Effect is what causes an ambulance siren to sound different as it moves towards you and further away from you.
Lesson of the day: I can get 30% off my Oyster card - cha ching!!
