{"id":37429,"date":"2022-09-29T15:52:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T20:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37429"},"modified":"2022-09-29T15:52:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T20:52:50","slug":"word-of-the-day-831","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/09\/29\/word-of-the-day-831\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Psychoacoustics<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Psychoacoustics<\/b>\u00a0is the branch of\u00a0<a title=\"Psychophysics\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychophysics\">psychophysics<\/a>\u00a0involving the scientific study of\u00a0<a title=\"Sound\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sound\">sound<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Perception\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perception\">perception<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Audiology\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Audiology\">audiology<\/a>\u2014how humans perceive various sounds. More specifically, it is the branch of science studying the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Psychological\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychological\">psychological<\/a>\u00a0responses associated with sound (including\u00a0<a title=\"Noise\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Noise\">noise<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Speech\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Speech\">speech<\/a>, and\u00a0<a title=\"Music\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Music\">music<\/a>). Psychoacoustics is an interdisciplinary field of many areas, including psychology, acoustics, electronic engineering, physics, biology, physiology, and computer science.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychoacoustics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/arts-entertainment\/interactive\/2022\/perfect-sound-quality-vinyl-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Search For The Perfect Sound<\/a>,<\/em>&#8221; Geoff Edgers, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CDs were not a crime against sonic nature. Their success as a product did lead to major shifts, though. Suddenly, the technologists, not the music geeks, were in charge. They focused on psychoacoustics, a field that embraces the idea that our ears can mask deficiencies in a recording. What we hear isn\u2019t merely what\u2019s presented but how we interpret it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve known audioheads for decades, but never really paid attention. This is an interesting exploration of the subject from the inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psychoacoustics: Psychoacoustics\u00a0is the branch of\u00a0psychophysics\u00a0involving the scientific study of\u00a0sound\u00a0perception\u00a0and\u00a0audiology\u2014how humans perceive various sounds. More specifically, it is the branch of science studying the\u00a0psychological\u00a0responses associated with sound (including\u00a0noise,\u00a0speech, and\u00a0music). Psychoacoustics is an interdisciplinary field of many areas, including psychology, acoustics, electronic engineering, physics, biology, physiology, and computer science.\u00a0[Wikipedia] Noted in &#8220;The \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/09\/29\/word-of-the-day-831\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37445,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37429\/revisions\/37445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}