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Similarities of inhibition in the different sense organs

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ID8726106
AuthorsGeorg von Békésy (corresponding author)
Year1969
Volume24
Issue8
Pages707-719
Publication date1969-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Psychologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-066X • E-ISSN: 1935-990X
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1037/h0027934
PMID5810471
OpenAlexW2052210220
LanguageEN

I would like to show in the following text the scientific framework of observations that made me interested in inhibition. Since I worked for many years in telephone engineering, the input and output system as represented in Figure 1 was, at that time, the basis of all my thinking. It is almost an electrical model of the causality principle. Unfortunately, the simple input-output model does not hold for many situations. For instance, the sound of a speaker is reflected from all the walls of a room and the listener hears two types of sounds, first the direct sounds representing the simple input-output system, and then the reflections from the walls. To localize the speaker correctly, all the reflected sounds coming from the walls have to be suppressed. I would like to call this suppression inhibition

Sense (electronics · Chemistry · Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies · Geophysics and Sensor Technology · Psychology · Scientific Research and Discoveries · Social Psychology

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