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In his scientific work, Manfred Schroeder touched many different areas within acoustics. Two disciplines repeatedly show up when his contributions are characterized: his strong interest in mathematics and his interest in the perceptual side of acoustics. In this chapter, we focus on the latter. We will first give a compressed account of Schroeder’s direct contributions to psychoacoustics, and emphasize the relation with other acoustics disciplines like speech processing and room acoustics. In the main part of the chapter we will then describe psychoacoustic work being based on or inspired by ideas from Manfred Schroeder. Due to Schroeder’s success in securing a modern online computer for the Drittes Physikalisches Institut after returning to Göttingen in 1969, his research students had a head start in using digital signal processing in room acoustics for digital sound field synthesis and in introducing digital computers into experimental and theoretical hearing research. Since then, the freedom to construct and use specific acoustic stimuli in behavioral and also physiological research has grown steadily, making it possible to test many of Schroeder’s early ideas in behavioral experiments and applications. In parallel, computer models of auditory perception allowed users to analyze and predict how specific properties of acoustic stimuli influence the perception of a listener. As in other fields of physics, the close interplay between experimental tests and quantitative models has been shown to be essential in advancing our understanding of human hearing.
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This chapter is an adapted version of a chapter which the authors contributed to a book published on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Drittes Physikalisches Institut (DPI) at the Georg-August Universität Göttingen [37].
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There are alternative ways to determine the envelope of a signal which lead to somewhat different envelopes. We will consider here the Hilbert envelope.
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In this case, the normalized fourth moment of the waveform.
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The work described in this chapter reflects the close and fruitful cooperations that I (AK) had over the past more than 30 years with friends and colleagues at the DPI in Göttingen and later on in Eindhoven where I was joined at the IPO by SvdP in 1992. We both would like to thank all our colleagues for the creative atmosphere, never-ending curiosity and great fun, which helped to generate some interesting scientific insights. A part of the Göttingen atmosphere was in 1991 exported to Eindhoven, and as can be seen from the reference list, this has become a similarly fruitful period.
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Kohlrausch, A., van de Par, S. (2015). Where Mathematics and Hearing Science Meet: Low Peak Factor Signals and Their Role in Hearing Research. In: Xiang, N., Sessler, G. (eds) Acoustics, Information, and Communication. Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05660-9_7
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