psychoacoustics
noun
the study of sound perception.
psychoacoustic
-
a word derived from
psychoacoustics.
Example Sentences
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"According to the psychoacoustic criterion used, the echoes are so strong that there is no reason to assume that the people in the past did not hear them," archaeologist Riitta Rainio estimates.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
Heard together — in pandemic-enforced isolation, no less — the three pieces offer an intoxicating introduction to Mr. Adams’s psychoacoustic geology of the spirit.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2020
Second part of that answer would be, when you have a lot of sound and volume, there’s a psychoacoustic effect in any movie.
From The Verge ● Apr. 19, 2018
These “linked room” works exploited psychoacoustic effects that she pioneered: A foyer might hit the spectator with high-pitched tones meant to excite strange inner-ear responses.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2017
In the meantime, psychoacoustic researchers are trying to crack the code of how to induce sleep.
From The Verge ● Jul. 1, 2016
