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psychoacoustics
The study of sound perception. It acknowledges that the mechanics of sound waves and acoustics is only one part of the puzzle in human listening, and that the conversion of vibrations to neural impulses is also important.
It has practical implications in the fields of data compression, sound localization, and audio equipment design and manufacturing.
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