psychoacoustic

They claim that the Philips HTS6600 uses "psychoacoustic" engineering and precise driver positioning to replicate 5.1 surround sound.

Woot! - One Day, One Deal 2009

There are also so-called "psychoacoustic" effects that convince the brain into thinking it is hearing more bass.

Forbes.com: News 2009

It uses a digital processor that unleashes all manner of psychoacoustic wizardry to make small rooms sound larger and ensure the myriad frequencies arrive at your ears in perfect unison.

$22,000 Speakers That Could Save Your Marriage 2011

I don't think this video demonstrates the universality of the pentatonic scale at all - it merely shows the universal ability to represent the same pitch in different octaves (chroma), which is a known psychoacoustic principle, and that we tend towards a major third over a minor third (due to the harmonic series, major third occuring earlier than the minor third).

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale on Vimeo 2010

Pitch scales that capture the psychoacoustic data assign equal magnitudes, commonly measured in units called mels, to equal pitch intervals.

Auditory Perception O'Callaghan, Casey 2009

I met Don several times – he was very supportive (intellectually and emotionally) of my psychoacoustic research.

Scripting News for 10/25/07 « Scripting News Annex 2007

The “psychoacoustic” process described sounds a lot like the technical details on how ordinary lossy audio codecs like MP3work.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Yeah, That’s A Good One: 2009

That spectrum is analyzed based on a ‘psychoacoustic model’, which basically drops frequencies components of low amplitude which are very nearby high amplitude frequency components.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Yeah, That’s A Good One: 2009

This is a block diagram of a model and simulation of the human auditory cortex that actually works quite well -- in applying psychoacoustic tests, gets very similar results to human auditory perception.

Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us Ray Kurzweil 2005

This is a block diagram of a model and simulation of the human auditory cortex that actually works quite well -- in applying psychoacoustic tests, gets very similar results to human auditory perception.

Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us Ray Kurzweil 2005