The Auditory Cortex; A Synthesis of Human and Animal Research

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

• ISBN13: 9781410613066
• ISBN10: 1410613062
• Copyright: 2005-04-04
• Publisher: LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, INC.

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

Auditory Cortical Fields and Their Functions

Introduction: Auditory Cortical Fields and Their Functions

Subdivisions and Connections of the Auditory Cortex in Primates: A Working Model

Anatomical Organization of the Human Auditory Cortex: Cytoarchitecture and Transmitter Receptors

Sensitivity to Spectral and Temporal Properties of Sound in Human Non-Primary Auditory Cortex

"What" and "Where" in Human Audition: Evidence From Anatomical, Activation, and Lesion Studies

The Anterior Field of Auditory Cortex: Neurophysiological and Neuroanatomical Organization

The Neurobehavioral Study of Auditory Cortex

Non-Acoustic Influence on Neural Activity in Auditory Cortex

The Posterolateral Superior Temporal Auditory Field in Humans: Functional Organization and Connectivity

Voice Processing in Human Auditory Cortex

Cerebral Organization of Speech Sound Perception: Hemispheric Lateralization Effects at the Level of the Supratemporal Plane, the Inferior Dorsolateral Frontal Lobe and the Cerebellum

Coding of Sounds

Introduction: Coding of Sounds

Toward a Unifying Basis of Auditory Thresholds

Distributed Representation of Sound-Source Location in the Auditory Cortex

Encoding of Complex Sounds in an Animal Model: Implications for Understanding Speech Perception in Humans

Correlated Neural Activity: Epiphenomenon or Part of the Neural Code?

Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Spike Occurrences in Freely-Moving Rats Associated to Perception of Human Vowels

Processing of the Temporal Envelope of Speech

Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Responses to Pure Tones and Frequency Modulated Sounds in the Guinea Pig Auditory Cortex

Levels of Auditory Processing: The Subcortical Auditory System, Primary Auditory Cortex, and the Hard Problems of Auditory Perception

Dynamics of Vocalization-Induced Sensory-Motor Interactions in the Primate Auditory Cortex

Plasticity, Learning, and Cognition

Introduction: Plasticity, Learning, and Cognition

Learning-Induced Plasticity in the Thalamo-Cortical Auditory System: Should We Move From Rate Code to Temporal Code Descriptions?

What Is Reflected in Auditory Cortex Activity: Properties of Sound Stimuli or What the Brain Does With Them?

Auditory Perceptual Learning and Cortical Plasticity

Neurodynamics in Auditory Cortex During Category Learning

Task-Dependent Adaptive Plasticity of Receptive Fields in Primary Auditory Cortex of the Ferret

Cognitive Adaptations and Neuroplasticity: Lessons From Event-Related Brain Potentials

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