Psychoacoustics | Course Overview | Music Production | Susan Rogers | Berklee Online

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Psychoacoustics in Music Production examines human auditory processing from the eardrum to the auditory cortex. Susan Rogers will teach you how speech and music signals are transformed from physical activity in the environment, to sensations in the cochlea, to psychological perceptions in the brain. You will also explore the relationship between a sound and its perception in terms of the underlying mechanisms and limitations of our hearing system. In addition to analyzing the auditory system, you will learn about spatial localization, critical bands and masking, temporal resolution, pitch, timbre, and loudness perception, speech and music perception, and noise-induced hearing loss. Throughout the course, you will learn practical applications for how this information serves the audio arts, especially engineering and mixing.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:
►Explain the hearing and auditory nervous system, in addition to the physics of sound
►Illustrate how the brain processes pitch, loudness, timbre, and timing
►Explain the process by which the human auditory system organizes sound into meaningful elements
►Understand the impact of noise-induced hearing loss
►Synthesize learnings about the human auditory system to understand why people hear what they hear
►Evaluate research in psychoacoustics
►Apply learning about the human auditory system to enhance production and engineering projects

About Susan Rogers
Susan Rogers is a professor at Berklee College of Music in the departments of Music Production & Engineering and Liberal Arts, and is the director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory. A doctor of psychology, her research focuses on auditory memory, the perception of musical signals, and the influence of musical training on auditory development. For two decades prior to her science career, Susan was one of the world's few women known for her work as a record producer, engineer, mixer, and audio electronics technician. Career highlights include five years (1983-1987) as staff engineer for Prince, producing hit singles for diverse artists such as Barenaked Ladies, David Byrne, Robben Ford, Jeff Black, and Rusted Root, mixing hit singles for an equally eclectic list including Tricky, Michael Penn, Toad the Wet Sprocket, and Tevin Campbell, and engineering for a host more.

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