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PSYC 138Sound and Music Perception

4 units · PSYC · UC San Diego

This course provides an overview of auditory perception. Topics may include the physiology of the auditory system, perception of pitch, loudness, and timbre, sound localization, perception of melodic and temporal patterns and musical illusions and paradoxes. Recommended preparation: ability to read musical notation.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “upper-division standing.”

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

One of the options in (2)

  • Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts
  • Linguistics (Speech and Language Sciences) (B.A.)