Psychoacoustics studies higher auditory functions where physiology is unknown

Evidence

Psychoacoustics has the advantage that experimentation in its basic form is easy and noninvasive, and thus the subject under study is not in danger of physical injury. … Another advantage of the psychoacoustic approach is that higher level functions of the auditory system can be studied where physiological knowledge is missing or too weak to support our understanding. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 843

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Higher-level hearing models rely on assumptions tested only against psychoacoustic data — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1650