SLHS 4600 - Hearing Sciences

The core of the acoustic wheel is titled __________.

fundamental physical acoustics.

The acoustic wheel branches into engineering, arts, earth sciences, and __________.

life sciences.

The pioneer in the study of acoustics was __________.

Pythagoras.

Consonance is a __________ sound, whereas dissonance is a harsh or displeasing sound.

pleasing.

Eustachio was an Italian anatomist who founded the __________.

eustachian tube.

Versalius wrote "The Fabric of the Human Body" and disproved the idea of the __________.

four humors.

Falloppio detailed the __________ membrane.

tympanic.

Du Verney founded __________ and discovered that sound perception occurs in the cochlea.

otology.

Von Helmholtz founded __________.

psychoacoustics.

Von Bekesy won a Nobel Prize for closely studying the cochlea and developing the __________.

otometer.