promote international cooperation within different specific fields of acoustics, provide assistance in organizing EAA events, suggest special issues for Acta Acustica or Acoustics in Practice, initiate studies and prepare documents such as strategies, policy statements, state-of-the-art assessments, reports, etc, within its defined technical field.

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Psychoacoustics and Methods for Listening Experiments

RWTH Aachen University

Docent
  • Janina Fels
Type
Lecture
Term
winter semester
Subject type
['Elective', 'Yes']
Study path
Elektrotechnik, Informationstechnik u. Technische Informatik MSc, Physik MSc, Psychologie Bsc
Specialisation/branch
Biomedical Engineering, Medical Acoustics, Acoustics, Psychoacoustics
Keywords
"Human senses: Human Hearing System, Human Perception of Sound: Critical Bands, Pitch and Frequency , JNDs, Auditory Filtering, Masking, Informational Masking, Role of Memory in Perception, Auditory Attention, Loudness Perception, Binaural Hearing: Fundamentals, binaural masking, localization, motion detection, precedence effect, binaural models, Speech perception: Fundamentals, Models (Articulation Index, Speech Intelligibility Index, etc.), Influence of Room Acoustics and Noise on Speech perception Auditory Scene Analysis, Psychophysics: Scales, Methods, Signal Detection Theory (Yes/No, Rating, Forced Choice), Research Methods: Hypotheses (H0 and H1), p-value, Type 1 & 2 errors, Variables, Definition, Experimental Design: within-subjects / between-subjects, Power analysis, T-test / ANOVA, Psychoacoustic Measures: Loudness, Sharpness, Tonality, Roughness, etc., Ethics"
Total ECTS credit
4.0
Examination
written or oral exam
Language
Webpage
https://online.rwth-aachen.de/RWTHonline/ee/ui/ca2/app/desktop/#/slc.tm.cp/student/courses/398031?$c
Last modified
May 2, 2022, 10:15 p.m.

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