Reference book recommendation

[CMOT]

I have been reading through a good bit of this thread. Lots of good questions and (some) good answers. I study human perception for a living - I am more on the vision side, but know a decent bit about hearing. My strong recommendation in anyone interested in learning the solid fundamentals (sic) of human hearing / psychoacoustics is to get a copy of:

Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing 6th Edition
by Brian C.J. Moore

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Psychology-Hearing-Sixth/dp/9004252428/

It isn't cheap, but less than that fancy, gold-plated USB cable....

 

[ernestcarl]

I have been reading through a good bit of this thread. Lots of good questions and (some) good answers. I study human perception for a living - I am more on the vision side, but know a decent bit about hearing. My strong recommendation in anyone interested in learning the solid fundamentals (sic) of human hearing / psychoacoustics is to get a copy of:

Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing 6th Edition
by Brian C.J. Moore

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Psychology-Hearing-Sixth/dp/9004252428/

It isn't cheap, but less than that fancy, gold-plated USB cable....

This really is more of a “hobby” for me. But I own this one as well. And have been using it more as a reference — occasionally used as a sleeping pill, too. Although, I have to say, certain sections/topics in the book goes way over my head, though.

 

[rdenney]

Acoustics are acoustics, and Arthur Benade's Horn, Strings and Harmony is accessible and clear. It provides a good description of how instruments make music, including resonance. For those at the college level on the topic, Fletcher and Rossing wrote the definitive text...The Physics of Musical Instruments. Much of this translates to audio very well, and it certainly is good to know for those wanting to reproduce those sounds.

The key is understanding the frequency domain, which applies to acoustics as much as to electronics. When I studied for the extra-class amateur radio exams, I found that what I knew about acoustics helped me understand antenna resonance and resonant circuits (particularly the concept of impedance matching and also the concept of resonance quality, or Q) in quite a direct way.

Rick "finding much common science between tuba playing, amateur radio, audio electronics, and speaker/room interaction" Denney

 

[pozz]

I have been reading through a good bit of this thread. Lots of good questions and (some) good answers. I study human perception for a living - I am more on the vision side, but know a decent bit about hearing. My strong recommendation in anyone interested in learning the solid fundamentals (sic) of human hearing / psychoacoustics is to get a copy of:

Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing 6th Edition
by Brian C.J. Moore

https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Psychology-Hearing-Sixth/dp/9004252428/

It isn't cheap, but less than that fancy, gold-plated USB cable....

What's the equivalent for vision? Feel free to name a whole bunch. Also something for the tactile sense, if you don't mind.

 

[CMOT]

What's the equivalent for vision? Feel free to name a whole bunch. Also something for the tactile sense, if you don't mind.

Hmm. Vision is harder in that there is no single "go to" reference

These are pretty solid:

Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology
https://www.amazon.com/Vision-Science-Phenomenology-Stephen-Palmer/dp/0262161834/

Seeing, second edition: The Computational Approach to Biological Vision
https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Computational-Approach-Biological-Vision/dp/0262514273/

And the Annual Review of Vision Science has some surprisingly accessible articles
https://www.annualreviews.org/journal/vision

Tactile I am not so sure.

this is a solid more general perception book (will have some tactile):

Sensation and Perception 10th Edition
https://www.amazon.com/Sensation-Perception-Bruce-Goldstein/dp/130558029X

as is this:

Sensation & Perception
https://www.amazon.com/Sensation-Pe...p-1605359726/dp/1605359726/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

 

[CMOT]

Since people seem interested, you might be aware that the study of vision and language is being revolutionized by modern AI - "Deep Neural Networks" (or often "Convolutional Neural Networks"). Although much of this work sits nominally in AI, much of it connects to advances in biological vision as well. By far, the best resource for learning more is: https://distill.pub

this site is amazing and the articles are often beautifully written/illustrated

 

[pozz]

Since people seem interested, you might be aware that the study of vision and language is being revolutionized by modern AI - "Deep Neural Networks" (or often "Convolutional Neural Networks"). Although much of this work sits nominally in AI, much of it connects to advances in biological vision as well. By far, the best resource for learning more is: https://distill.pub

this site is amazing and the articles are often beautifully written/illustrated

Not familiar with this at all.

I've looked at Jeff Hawkins' work on modelling cortical principles and hierarchical temporal memory. Only glancingly related to perception (more machine learning) but it gives interesting insights into some of the contextual elements of cognition.

 

[CMOT]

Jeff He is an interesting character. Most of what he has in "On Intelligence" isn't wrong, but it isn't particularly novel. But I think neural nets - due to Hinton, LeCun and Bengio - has have evolved far past what Jeff was (is?) thinking about. This isn't a bad review article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02212-4

and Dan Yamins is one of the best of a new generation....