The Oxford Handbook of Auditory Science The Auditory Brain

by Rees, Adrian; Palmer, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780199233281
• ISBN10: 0199233284
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-03-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The auditory brain is the second volume in the Oxford Handbook of Auditory Science. It brings together some of the leading authorities in the world to describe what we know about the brain bases of hearing. Following the first section on structure and function, there follow sections oninformation coding within the brain, development, aging and plasticity, cognition and emotion, and pathology of the auditory brain. Fully illustrated, the book will be an essential resource for students and researchers in auditory science, neuroscience, ENT, and psycholology.

Author Biography

Alan Palmer received his first degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Birmingham UK in 1972 and his PhD in Communication and Neuroscience from the University of Keele UK in 1977. After three years as a postdoctoral researcher at Keele, he established his own neurophysiological laboratory at the National Institute for Medical Research in London. This was followed by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the University of Sussex before taking a program leader position at the Medical Research Council Institute for Hearing Research in 1986. He heads a research team that uses neurophysiological and neuroanatomical techniques to study the way the brain processes sound. He is currently Deputy Director of the Institute and has responsibility for major technical developments. He also holds a Special Professorship in neuroscience at the University of Nottingham UK.
Adrian Rees is Reader in Auditory Neuroscience at Newcastle University. He gained a BA in Physiological Sciences and DPhil from the University of Oxford (Keble College) and spent three years as Staines Medical Research Fellow at Exeter College. After postdoctoral study as a Harkness Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh and at the MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, he was appointed to a lectureship in Physiological Sciences at Newcastle. He is currently a member of the University's Institute of Neuroscience where he researches the brain mechanisms that underlie hearing, and teaches in the Faculty of Medical Sciences.

Table of Contents

Overview

Structural and Functional Organization of the Auditory Brain

Structural organization of the ascending auditory pathway

Structural organization of the descending auditory pathway

Central auditory neurotransmitters

Information Coding in the Auditory Brain: Sound Identification

Level and spectrum

Time varying sounds: amplitude envelope modulations

Pitch

Ethological stimuli

Speech

Formation of auditory streams

Role of descending control in the auditory pathway

Information Coding in the Auditory Brain: Sound Location

Binaural localization cues

Sound location: monaural cues and spectral cues for elevation

Physiological correlates of the precedence effect adn binaural masking level differences

Development, Aging and Plasticity of the Auditory Brain

Development of the auditory pathway

Plasticity of the auditory pathway

Aging changes in the central auditory system

Cognition and Emotion in the Auditory Brain

The cognitive auditory cortex

Emotional responses to auditory stimuli

Pathology of the Auditory Brain

Disorders of the auditory brain

Tinnitus

Auditory prostheses for the brainstem and midbrain

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