Handbook home
Perception Of Sound & Speech (AUDI90017)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25On Campus (Parkville)
You’re currently viewing the 2018 version of this subject
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Semester 1
Overview
Availability | Semester 1 |
---|---|
Fees | Look up fees |
This subject covers psychoacoustics, psychophysical measurement, acoustic phonetics, and their relation to audiological practice.
Intended learning outcomes
This subject is designed to enable students to:
- understand the relationship between the psychological percepts of loudness, pitch and timbre, and the physically measurable parameters of sound such as intensity (sound pressure level), fundamental frequency, frequency spectrum and duration;
- understand the psychophysical concepts of threshold and difference limen;
- understand the main psychoacoustical methods for determining the detection and discrimination ability of the auditory system;
- understand the current physiological theories of pitch and loudness perception;
- understand binaural processing of sounds in relation to localisation and masking effects;
- understand the way in which speech sounds are produced in the vocal tract; the effect of the position of the articulators (tongue, lips, velum, etc.) on speech sounds and the acoustic principles underlying these effects;
- understand the acoustic features of different speech sounds as they relate to their production and auditory discrimination;
- understand the range of intensity, frequency and temporal components found in normal speech sounds and the effects of inter- and intra- speaker variations;
- understand the effect of intensity, background noise and reverberation on speech perception;
- understand the importance of language ability, semantic, syntactic and phonetic context in speech perception; and
- understand the effects of hearing loss on speech perception; the importance of lip-reading in speech perception.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject students should have:
- well developed problem solving skills
- an ability to evaluate and synthesise information in a flexible manner
- an ability to apply research findings to audiological practice
- a capacity to articulate the knowledge gained in both oral and written formats
Last updated: 3 November 2022