TY - GEN
T1 - ECHOES FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE MUNICH SCHOOL OF PSYCHOACOUSTICS
AU - Seeber, Bernhard U.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Seeber. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Eberhard Zwicker founded the Institute of Electroacoustics at the TH Munich, now Technical University of Munich, in 1967 and was joined by the psychoacousticians Ernst Terhardt and Hugo Fastl and, for speech recognition, by Guenther Ruske. The subsequent two+ decades were a highly fruitful period for psychoacoustics in Munich, leading to what can now be viewed as the “Munich School of Psychoacoustics”: Research on peripheral auditory processes led to key contributions to spectral and temporal auditory masking and to measures of critical bandwidth (BARK bands), while work on non-linear cochlear processes, including otoacoustic emissions, resulted in a non-linear electric model of the cochlea. Terhardt's works on pitch, consonance and harmony were pioneering. Research on the percepts of sharpness, roughness and fluctuation strength laid the foundation for psychoacoustic sound quality. DIN 45631 and ISO 532b standardize Zwicker's loudness model and bridge to a wide array of applications of psychoacoustics. While I am too young to have met Eberhard Zwicker in person, I have “inherited” his personal and the institute document archives and will report on selected research outcomes.
AB - Eberhard Zwicker founded the Institute of Electroacoustics at the TH Munich, now Technical University of Munich, in 1967 and was joined by the psychoacousticians Ernst Terhardt and Hugo Fastl and, for speech recognition, by Guenther Ruske. The subsequent two+ decades were a highly fruitful period for psychoacoustics in Munich, leading to what can now be viewed as the “Munich School of Psychoacoustics”: Research on peripheral auditory processes led to key contributions to spectral and temporal auditory masking and to measures of critical bandwidth (BARK bands), while work on non-linear cochlear processes, including otoacoustic emissions, resulted in a non-linear electric model of the cochlea. Terhardt's works on pitch, consonance and harmony were pioneering. Research on the percepts of sharpness, roughness and fluctuation strength laid the foundation for psychoacoustic sound quality. DIN 45631 and ISO 532b standardize Zwicker's loudness model and bridge to a wide array of applications of psychoacoustics. While I am too young to have met Eberhard Zwicker in person, I have “inherited” his personal and the institute document archives and will report on selected research outcomes.
KW - Eberhard Zwicker
KW - Ernst Terhardt
KW - Hugo Fastl
KW - Loudness
KW - Masking
KW - Munich School of Psychoacoustics
KW - Pitch
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85191240311
T3 - Proceedings of Forum Acusticum
BT - Forum Acusticum 2023 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023
PB - European Acoustics Association, EAA
T2 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023
Y2 - 11 September 2023 through 15 September 2023
ER -