The Auditory Cortex: A Synthesis of Human and Animal Research

by König, Reinhard; Heil, Peter; Scheich, Henning; Budinger, Eike

• ISBN13: 9780805849387
• ISBN10: 0805849386
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-03-02
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

Understanding human hearing is not only a scientific challenge but also a problem of growing social and political importance, given the steadily increasing numbers of people with hearing deficits or even deafness. This book is about the highest level of

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
List of Authors	xi
Part I Auditory Cortical Fields and Their Functions
Introduction: Auditory cortical fields and their functions	3	(4)
Eike Budinger
Subdivisions and connections of the auditory cortex in primates: A working model	7	(20)
Jon H. Kaas
Troy A. Hackett
Anatomical organization of the human auditory cortex: Cytoarchitecture and transmitter receptors	27	(24)
Patricia Morosan
Jorg Rademacher
Nicola Palomero-Gallagher
Karl Zilles
Sensitivity to spectral and temporal properties of sound in human non-primary auditory cortex	51	(26)
Deborah A. Hall
``What'' and ``Where'' in human audition: Evidence from anatomical, activation, and lesion studies	77	(18)
Stephanie Clarke
Michela Adriani
Eric Tardif
The anterior field of auditory cortex: Neurophysiological and neuroanatomical organization	95	(16)
Kazuo Imaizumi
Charles C. Lee
Jennifer F. Linden
Jeffery A. Winer
Christoph E. Schreiner
The neurobehavioral study of auditory cortex	111	(16)
Henry E. Heffner
Non-acoustic influence on neural activity in auditory cortex	127	(18)
Michael Brosch
Henning Scheich
The posterolateral superior temporal auditory field in humans: Functional organization and connectivity	145	(18)
John F. Brugge
Igor O. Volkov
Richard A. Reale
P. Charles Garell
Hiroto Kawasaki
Hiroyuki Oya
Qingyu Li
Matthew A. Howard III
Voice processing in human auditory cortex	163	(18)
Pascal Belin
Robert J. Zatorre
Cerebral organization of speech sound perception: Hemispheric lateralization effects at the level of the supratemporal plane, the inferior dorsolateral frontal lobe, and the cerebellum	181	(22)
Hermann Ackermann
Ingo Hertrich
Werner Lutzenberger
Klaus Mathiak
Part II Coding Of Sounds
Introduction: Coding of sounds	203	(4)
Michael Brosch
Toward a unifying basis of auditory thresholds	207	(18)
Peter Heil
Heinrich Neubauer
Distributed representation of sound-source location in the auditory cortex	225	(16)
John C. Middlebrooks
Shigeto Furukawa
G. Christopher Stecker
Brian J. Mickey
Encoding of complex sounds in an animal model: Implications for understanding speech perception in humans	241	(14)
Brad Wible
Trent Nicol
Nina Kraus
Correlated neural activity: Epiphenomenon or part of the neural code?	255	(20)
Jos J. Eggermont
Spatio-temporal patterns of spike occurrences in freely-moving rats associated to perception of human vowels	275	(20)
Alessandro E.P. Villa
Processing of the temporal envelope of speech	295	(20)
Ehud Ahissar
Merav Ahissar
Spatio-temporal patterns of responses to pure tones and frequency-modulated sounds in the guinea pig auditory cortex	315	(16)
Ikuo Taniguchi
Shunji Sugimoto
Andreas Hess
Junsei Horikawa
Yutaka Hosokawa
Henning Scheich
Levels of auditory processing: The subcortical auditory system, primary auditory cortex, and the hard problems of auditory perception	331	(16)
Israel Nelken
Liora Las
Nachum Ulanovsky
Dina Farkas
Dynamics of vocalization-induced sensory-motor interactions in the primate auditory cortex	347	(14)
Steven J. Eliades
Xiaoqin Wang
Part III Plasticity, Learning, and Cognition
Introduction: Plasticity, learning, and cognition	361	(4)
Reinhard Konig
Learning-induced plasticity in the thalamo-cortical auditory system: Should we move from rate code to temporal code descriptions?	365	(18)
Jean-Marc Edeline
What is reflected in auditory cortex activity: Properties of sound stimuli or what the brain does with them?	383	(26)
Henning Scheich
Frank W. Ohl
Holger Schulze
Andreas Hess
Andre Brechmann
Auditory perceptual learning and cortical plasticity	409	(20)
Dexter Irvine
Mel Brown
Russell Martin
Valerie Park
Neurodynamics in auditory cortex during category learning	429	(16)
Frank W. Ohl
Henning Scheich
Walter J. Freeman
Task-dependent adaptive plasticity of receptive fields in primary auditory cortex of the ferret	445	(22)
Jonathan Fritz
Mounya Elhilali
Shihab Shamma
Cognitive adaptations and neuroplasticity: Lessons from event-related brain potentials	467	(18)
Jascha Russeler
Wido Nager
Janine Mobes
Thomas F. Munte
Subject index	485