ABSTRACT

Nowhere in auditory theory or in acoustic psychophysiological practice is there anything more ubiquitous than the critical band…. And likely, in one way or another, it will be part of our final understanding of how and why we perceive anything that reaches our ears. Students of vision have no such omnipresent entity to worry and console them. The other senses lack the mysteriousness of this unseen—perhaps nonexistent—but pervasive auditory filter