1.
What are the
characteristics of the inner and outer hair cells? How are they similar to the
receptors of the eye?
2.
What is the efferent
pathway for and how is it related to otoacoustic
emissions? Describe an auditory tuning curve (include what happens as increase
loudness). What is the motile response and how does
this influence tuning curves?
3.
Discuss place
(tuning curves) and frequency (volley principle and phase locking) theory. How
can they both be correct?
4.
How is loudness
calculated? What and where (on the body) is resonance? How does it affect
loudness? How is pitch related to loudness in terms of the equal loudness
contour (draw graph)?
5.
How are we able
to localize sound binaurally? Describe in detail.
6.
How are we able
to localize sound using monaural (spectral cues) and other factors (sound
level, frequency, movement parallax, reflection, Doppler shift, precedence
effect)?
7.
What is the
pathway for sound comprehension and localization in the brain? Make sure you
indicate what each section does (afferent). Describe the different types of
neurons that you encounter as you go up the pathway (also see end of Ch, 10,
385-387)
8.
Explain how surround
sound works. Also explain how architectural acoustics and related factors
influence how music sounds in concert halls.
9.
What is a
phoneme? How are consonants and vowels produced (in detail)? Give examples.
10.
Draw a
spectrogram and label and define ALL of the parts. What are the first and
second formats related to?
11.
What is the motor
theory of speech perception and the data for this? What is the data that
suggests speech is special? What is the theory against this model (what do they
think speech is)? How do they use music to support their theories?
12.
How do we use
higher order processing (cognitive dimensions of speech perception or top down
processing) in order to understand speech? Give examples.
13.
Draw a picture of
the skin and label its parts. What are the 4 encapsulated endings for touch and
how do they work (what do they respond to, etc.)?
14.
What are the 2
pathways to the brain for the cutaneous senses and
how do they differ? How do our absolute and difference thresholds change over
the skin and why might you see these differences (at skin and brain level and
passive vs. active touch)? NOTE: In this question, you do not need to go into
the kinethesis receptors to answer the passive/active
touch part of the question.