Psychoacoustics developed largely through communication technology challenges

Evidence

Auditory psychophysics, more often called psychoacoustics, is important in understanding the systemic and information processing properties of auditory functions (see Section 1.3). It is, in principle, independent of physiological research and knowledge, but it is always most fortunate if physiological and psychoacoustic facts and models support each other. As will become obvious below, many (but not all) psychoacoustic phenomena find a correlate in the physiology of hearing. Modern psychoacoustics, based on systematic experimentation, has been carried out for roughly a century. Its development has been greatly influenced by engineering sciences, especially by the challenges of communication technology. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 842

Modern psychoacoustics, based on systematic experimentation, has been carried out for roughly a century. Its development has been greatly influenced by engineering sciences, especially by the challenges of communication technology. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 842

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes psychoacoustics as the study of systemic and informational properties of hearing, independent of but correlated with physiology.
• QUESTION: Which specific communication-technological challenges drove psychoacoustic method development over the past century?
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s stated goal of understanding acoustic communication applications — the engineering/telecom origins of psychoacoustics are the historical root of applied communication acoustics.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 842