psychoacoustics

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sound

  • Acoustics
    In acoustics

    Psychoacoustics, the study of the physical effects of sound on biological systems, has been of interest since Pythagoras first heard the sounds of vibrating strings and of hammers hitting anvils in the 6th century bc, but the application of modern ultrasonic technology has only recently…

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