Similarities of inhibition in the different sense organs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8726106 |
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| Authors | Georg von Békésy (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 707-719 |
| Publication date | 1969-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Psychologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-066X • E-ISSN: 1935-990X |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1037/h0027934 |
| PMID | 5810471 |
| OpenAlex | W2052210220 |
| Language | EN |
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
| Highly cited | No |
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