Psychoacoustics originated in early 1700s experimental psychology

Evidence

Knowledge of the association between sound and its perception has been around for many centuries. However, the primary roots of psychoacoustics date back to the early 1700s, when the philosophers of the time began to lay the foundation for the field of experimental psychology, which studied human behavior. — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 49

Knowledge of the association between sound and its perception has been around for many centuries. However, the primary roots of psychoacoustics date back to the early 1700s, when the philosophers of the time began to lay the foundation for the field of experimental psychology, which studied human behavior. This chapter provides an historical perspective of psychoacoustics by first presenting a history of experimental psychology and then discussing how those developments led to the fields of psychoacoustics and audiology, which were, in some ways, developed together. — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 49

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• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Jennifer Lentz, Psychoacoustics- Perception of Normal…, 49