Auditory Signal Processing

by Pressnitzer, Daniel; de Cheveigne, Alain; McAdams, Stephen; Collet, Lionel

• ISBN13: 9780387219158
• ISBN10: 0387219153
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The result of extensive collaboration among leaders of the worldwide auditory research community, Auditory Signal Processing: Physiology, Psychoacoustics, and Models is a record of the papers presented at the XIIIth International Symposium on Hearing (ISH) Dourdan, France, August 24-29, 2003. The volume includes a total of 62 invited papers, organized into 12 broad thematic areas: cochlear signal processing; brainstem signal processing; pitch; frequency modulation; streaming; amplitude modulation; responses to complex sounds; speech; comodulation masking release; binaural hearing; temporal coding; and plasticity.

Table of Contents

Cochlear signal processing
Mary Ann Cheatham	1	(6)
Nonlinearities at the apex of the cochlea: Implications for auditory perception
Marcel van der Heijden and Philip X. Joris	7	(7)
Reconstructing the traveling wave from auditory nerve responses
Alberto Lopez-Najera, Ray Meddis, and Enrique A. Lopez-Poveda	14	(7)
A computational algorithm for computing cochlear frequency selectivity: Further studies
Roy D. Patterson, Masashi Unoki, and Toshio Irino	21	(9)
Comparison of the compressive-gammachirp and double-roex auditory filters
Mary Florentine, Søren Buus, and Mindy Rosenberg	30	(10)
Reaction-time data support the existence of Softness Imperception in cochlear hearing loss
Michael G. Heinz, Danilo Scepanovic, John Issa, Murray B. Sachs, and Eric D. Young	40	(10)
Normal and impaired level encoding: Effects of noise-induced hearing loss on auditory-nerve responses
Stephen T. Neely, Kim S. Schairer, and Walt Jesteadt	50	(10)
Estimates of cochlear compression from measurements of loudness growth
Christopher J. Plack, Catherine G. O'Hanlon, and Vit Drga	60	(7)
Additivity of masking and auditory compression
Magdalena Wojtczak and Neal F. Viemeister	67	(8)
Psychophysical response growth under suppression
Brainstem signal processing
David W. Smith, E. Christopher Kirk, and Emily Buss	75	(9)
The function(s) of the medial olivocochlear efferent system in hearing
Katuhiro Maki and Masato Akagi	84	(7)
A computational model of cochlear nucleus neurons
Kazuhito Ito and Masato Akagi	91	(9)
Study on improving regularity of neural phase locking in single neurons of AVCN via a computational model
Dries H. Louage, Marcel van der Heijden, and Philip X. Joris	100	(7)
Fibers in the trapezoid body show enhanced synchronization to broadband noise when compared to auditory nerve fibers
Pitch
Leonardo Cedolin and Bertrand Delgutte	107	(10)
Representations of the pitch of complex tones in the auditory nerve
Lutz Wiegrebe, Alexandra Stein, and Ray Meddis	117	(9)
Coding of pitch and amplitude modulation in the auditory brainstem: One common mechanism?
Andrew J. Oxenham, Joshua G. Bernstein, and Christophe Micheyl	126	(10)
Pitch perception of complex tones within and across ears and frequency regions
Laurent Demany, Gaspard Montandon, and Catherine Semal	136	(9)
Internal noise and memory for pitch
André Rupp, Stefan Uppenkamp, Jen Bailes, Alexander Gutschalk, and Roy D. Patterson	145	(9)
Time constants in temporal pitch extraction: A comparison of psychophysical and neuromagnetic data
Bernd Lütkenhöner, Christian Borgmann, Katrin Krumbholz, Stefan Seither, and Annemarie Seither-Preisler	154	(8)
Auditory processing at the lower limit of pitch studied by magnetoencephalography
Frequency modulation
Günter Ehret, Steffen R. Hage, Marina Egorova, and Birgit A. Müller	162	(7)
Auditory maps in the midbrain: The inferior colliculus
Craig Atencio, Fabrizio Strata, David Blake, Ben Bonham, Benoit Godey, Michael Merzenich, Christoph Schreiner, and Steven Cheung	169	(7)
Representation of frequency modulation in the primary auditory cortex of New World monkeys
Pierre L. Divenyi	176	(9)
Frequency change velocity and acceleration detector: A bird or a red herring?
Robert P. Carlyon, Christophe Micheyl, and John Deeks	185	(11)
Coding of FM and the continuity illusion
Streaming
Makio Kashino and Minae Okada	196	(7)
The role of spectral change detectors in sequential grouping of tones
Christophe Micheyl, Robert P. Carlyon, Rhodri Cusack, and Brian C.J. Moore	203	(9)
Performance measures of auditory organization
Nicolas Grimault, Sid P. Bacon, and Christophe Micheyl	212	(9)
Auditory streaming without spectral cues in hearing-impaired subjects
Amplitude modulation
Neal F. Viemeister, Mark A. Stellmack, and Andrew J. Byrne	221	(9)
The role of temporal structure in envelope processing
Christian Füllgrabe, Laurent Demany, and Christian Lorenzi	230	(7)
Detecting changes in amplitude-modulation frequency: A test of the concept of excitation pattern in the temporal-envelope domain
Frederick Gallun, Ervin R. Hafter, and Anne-Marie Bonnel	237	(7)
Modeling the role of duration in intensity increment detection
Stanley Sheft and William A. Yost	244	(7)
Minimum integration times for processing of amplitude modulation
Responses to complex sounds
Ellen Covey and Paul A. Faure	251	(7)
Neural mechanisms for analyzing temporal patterns in echolocating bats
Diana B. Geissler and Günter Ehret	258	(7)
Time-critical frequency integration of complex communication sounds in the auditory cortex of the mouse
Israel Nelken, Nachum Ulanovsky, Liora Las, Omer Bar-Yosef, Michael Anderson, Gal Chechik, Naftali Tishby, and Eric D. Young	265	(10)
Transformation of stimulus representations in the ascending auditory system
Dennis L. Barbour and Xiaoqin Wang	275	(8)
AM and FM coherence sensitivity in the auditory cortex as a potential neural mechanism for sound segregation
Speech
Fan-Gang Zeng, Kaibao Nie, Ginger Stickney, and Ying-Yee Kong	283	(9)
Auditory perception with slowly-varying amplitude and frequency modulations
Steven J. Eliades and Xiaoqin Wang	292	(7)
The role of auditory-vocal interaction in hearing
Ingrid Johnsrude, Matt Davis, and Alexis Hervais-Adelman	299	(8)
From sound to meaning: Hierarchical processing in speech comprehension
John F. Culling and Julia S. Porter	307	(7)
Effects of differences in the accent and gender of competing voices on speech segregation
Jont B. Allen	314	(7)
The Articulation Index is a Shannon channel capacity
Comodulation masking release
Ian M. Winter, Veronika Neuert, and Jesko L. Verhey	321	(7)
Comodulation masking release and the role of wideband inhibition in the cochlear nucleus
Georg M. Klump and Sonja B. Hofer	328	(7)
The relevance of rate and time cues for CMR in starling auditory forebrain neurons
Torsten Dau, Stephan D. Ewert, and Andrew J. Oxenham	335	(9)
Effects of concurrent and sequential streaming in comodulation masking release
Binaural hearing
Ray Meddis, Christian Sumner, and Susan Shore	344	(11)
Effects of contralateral sound stimulation on forward masking in the guinea pig
H. Steven Colburn, Yi Zhou, and Vasant Dasika	355	(7)
Inhibition in models of coincidence detection
Birger Kollmeier and Helmut Riedel	362	(8)
What can auditory evoked potentials tell us about binaural processing in humans?
Trevor M. Shackleton and Alan R. Palmer	370	(7)
Sensitivity to changes in interaural time difference and interaural correlation in the inferior colliculus
Leslie R. Bernstein and Constantine Trahiotis	377	(13)
Processing of interaural temporal disparities with both "transposed" and conventional stimuli
D. Wesley Grantham, Daniel H. Ashmead, and Todd A. Ricketts	390	(8)
Sound localization in the frontal horizontal plane by post-lingually deafened adults fitted with bilateral cochlear implants
Steven van de Par, Armin Kohlrausch, Jeroen Breebaart, and Martin McKinney	398	(7)
Discrimination of different temporal envelope structures of diotic and dichotic target signals within diotic wide-band noise
Courtney C. Lane, Norbert Kopco, Bertrand Delgutte, Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham, and H. Steven Colburn	405	(9)
A cat's cocktail party: Psychophysical, neurophysiological, and computational studies of spatial release from masking
Brad Rakerd and William M. Hartmann	414	(9)
Localization of noise in a reverberant environment
Anthony J. Watkins	423	(6)
Listening in real-room reverberation: Effects of extrinsic context
Daniel J. Tollin, Micheal L. Dent, and Tom C.T. Yin	429	(7)
Psychophysical and physiological studies of the precedence effect and echo threshold in the behaving cat
Michael A. Akeroyd	436	(7)
Some similarities between the temporal resolution and the temporal integration of interaural time differences
Caroline Witton, Gary G.R. Green, and G. Bruce Henning	443	(11)
Binaural "sluggishness" as a function of stimulus bandwidth
Temporal coding
Peter Hell and Heinrich Neubauer	454	(17)
Auditory thresholds re-visited
Marjorie Leek, Robert Dooling, Otto Gleich, and Micheal L. Dent	471	(7)
Discrimination of temporal fine structure by birds and mammals
Philip X. Joris, Marcel van der Heijden, Dries H. Louage, Bram Van de Sande, and Cindy Van Kerckhoven	478	(7)
Dependence of binaural and cochlear "best delays" on characteristic frequency
Mounya Elhilali, David J. Klein, Jonathan B. Fritz, Jonathan Z. Simon, and Shihab A. Shamma	485	(10)
The enigma of cortical responses: Slow yet precise
Plasticity
Jean-Marc Edeline	495	(6)
Learning-induced sensory plasticity: Rate code, temporal code, or both?
Katrina M. MacLeod and Catherine E. Carr	501	(9)
Synaptic dynamics and intensity coding in the cochlear nucleus
Beverly A. Wright and Matthew B. Fitzgerald	510	(7)
Learning and generalization on five basic auditory discrimination tasks as assessed by threshold changes
Subject index	517	(5)
Author index	522