Acoustics/Psychoacoustics

Oh the fun we had with strange audio cognition tricks!

Links

There are many good acoustics and psychoacoustics books, here are a few that I've find particularly informative:

Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics -- Perry Cook's basic text
Psychoacoustics: Facts and Models -- good contemporary research survey
Master Handbook of Acoustics -- comprehensive acoustics book
Auditory Scene Analysis -- interesting perpective on hearing by Albert Bregman
An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing -- good basic psychoacoustics text by noted researcher Brian C. J. Moore

I also found some good 'basic' links (many with extensive links to more info) on the web:

The Wikipedia Psychoacoustics entry -- always a good place to look!
Univ. of MN Psychoacoustics lab -- long and illustrious history
Dan Ellis' home page -- right here at Columbia! Check the LabROSA link
Robert Remez' home page -- noted psychoacoustician at Barnard

There are a Whole Lot More out there... google can be your friend.

Applications and Examples

Here are just a few examples of snazzy psychoacoustics tricks I found on the web to whet the ole appetite:

Robert Remez' sine-wave speech demo
some interesting pitch and melody "illusions"
Diana Deutsch' home page -- Diana is sort of the Queen of Illusion, psychoacoustically-speaking

Ditto the "whole lot more" comment above.

We had fun fun fun with sound. We barely scratched the surface of psychoacoustics, but plan to make a few more scratches during the year.