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Sound:
Physics; Salient features of perception.
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Weber-Fechner
laws, as in touch, vision
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Auditory
Pathway: cochlea brainstem cortex
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Optimal
design to pick up the perceptually salient features
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Coding
principles common to other sensory systems:
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sensory
or place maps,
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receptive
fields,
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hierarchies
of complexity.
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Coding
principles unique to auditory system: timing
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Physiology
explains perception
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fMRI
of language processing
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Plasticity
(sensory experience or external manipulation).
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Diseases:
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Hearing
impairment affects ~ 30 million in the USA
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