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9781861560698

Psychophysical and Physiological Advances in Hearing

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    9781861560698

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    1861560699

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-04-01
  • Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

The book is an exchange of information between molecular biologists, physiologists, psychoacousticians, psychologists and computer scientists all addressing, from their own perspectives, the mechanisms of the ear and brain upon which hearing depends.

Table of Contents

Cell and cytoskeletal mechanics in the organ of Cortip. 1
Apical cochlear mechanics: a review of recent observationsp. 11
Efferent suppression of basilar membrane vibration depends on tone frequency and level: implications for the active control of basilar memebrane mechanicsp. 19
Effects of contralateral noise on absolute thresholds in non-human primates: Is "central masking" an efferent-mediated peripheral process?p. 26
Basilar membrane nonlinearity and forward maskingp. 34
Electrically evoked otoacoustic emissions - implications for the reverse transduction processp. 44
Evidence for and against a second mechanical filter in the cochleap. 52
Mechanical delays in deteriotated cochleasp. 59
Possible hormonal contributions to sex differences in otoacoustic emissions and in hearingp. 65
Auditory filter shape: implications from IHC recordingsp. 73
An efficient characterisation of human auditory filtering across level and frequency that is also physiologically reasonablep. 81
Electrical and Mechanical Anatomy of the outer hair cellp. 89
Ion channels and synaptic function in chick cochlear hair cellsp. 97
Variations in the electrical properties of hair cells in the frog auditory systemp. 105
A revised computational inner hair cell modelp. 112
Hair cell regeneration in the chick cochlea - where we stand after 10 years of workp. 122
Impact of hair cell loss and regeneration on nonlinear responses of the chicken cochleap. 130
FGF- and eph-related receptor tyrosine kinase expression in the chick cochleap. 138
The paradox of the Belgian Waterslager Canary: congenital hair cell abnormalities and hearing loss despite post mitotic hair cell replacementp. 145
The auditory fovea of the barn owl - no correlation with enhanced frequency resolutionp. 153
Auditory-nerve responses to amplitude modulation: some implications for synaptic transmissionp. 162
Rate encoding of stimulus spectra by auditory nerve fibersp. 170
Analogue VLSI building blocks for an electronic auditory pathwayp. 178
Periodicity coding of the fundamental frequency of harmonic complexes: physiological and pharmacological study of onset units in the ventral cochlear nucleusp. 186
Integration of ascending and descending signals representing stimulus intensity in the marginal shell of the anteroventral cochlear nucleusp. 195
Cytomolecular foundations of signal processing in the dorsal cochlear nucleusp. 204
The acoustic response properties of identified pyramidal and cartwheel cells of the dorsal cochlear nucleusp. 213
Cellular physiology of pyramidal and cartwheel cells of the dorsal cochlear nucleusp. 221
A role for memory in divided attention between two independent stimulip. 228
Pitch strength and frequency discrimination for noise bands or complex tonesp. 238
The effects of resolvability on the encoding of fundamental frequency by the auditory systemp. 246
Listeners' spectral weighting functions describing the dominance region for the pitch of harmonic complex tonesp. 255
Effects of a difference in fundamental frequency in separating two speech messagesp. 263
Mechanisms that improve signal detection in noise: a study of comodulation masking release in a songbirdp. 270
Functional implications of frequency and periodicity pitch in the auditory systemp. 277
Phase effects in roughness perceptionp. 286
A space-time theory of pitch and timbre based on cortical expansion of the cochlear travelling wave delayp. 293
Auditory attention beyond the earp. 304
Auditory virtual reality as a research toolp. 311
Adaptation in sound localisation revealed by auditory after-effectsp. 322
Across-frequency integration in the precedence effectp. 329
The precedence effect and perceptual compensation for spectral envelope distortionp. 336
Development of temporal coding circuits in the barn owlp. 344
Principal component analysis applied to action potentials reveal neuronal interaction in auditory brainstem nucleip. 352
Contributions of changes in the timing and amplitude of synaptic inputs to neural sensitivity to interaural intensity differencesp. 359
Responses to sound motion: interaural amplitude and phase modulation in the inferior colliculusp. 368
Auditory physiology and perception of spectral cues for sound localisation in catsp. 376
Binaural mechanisms that emphasize consistent interaural timing information over frequencyp. 384
The index of interaural correlation: an integrative approachp. 396
Salience and JND of pitch for dichotic noise stimuli with scattered harmonics: grouping and the spectral theoryp. 403
Effects of conductive loss on binaural hearing in humans and animalsp. 412
A classically conditioned rabbit preparation for the study of binaural masking level differencesp. 419
The contribution of static and dynamic interaural differences to low-frequency BMLDsp. 426
Predictions of signal thresholds in a frozen-noise masker using monaural and binaural temporal windowsp. 433
Sensitivity of auditory cells in the superior colliculus to eye position in the behaving catp. 441
Loudness function for tones at low levels derived from loudness summationp. 449
Predicting the intensity JND from the loudness of tones and noisep. 458
Loudness of modulated sounds as a function of modulation rate, modulation depth, modulation waveform and overall levelp. 465
Physiological processes underlying psychophysical lawsp. 473
Modelling the "effective" auditory signal processing for hearing-impaired listenersp. 482
Processing of simple and complex acoustical signals in the inferior colliculus and medial geniculatebody of the guinea pigp. 491
Neural synchrony within and between neurones in three cortical fields in cat for complex soundsp. 497
Responses of field AES neurones to virtual space stimulip. 504
Representation of complex spectra in auditory cortexp. 513
What is the neural code of species-specific communication sounds in the auditory cortex?p. 521
Spatial-temporal representation of syllables in cat primary auditory cortexp. 529
Brainstem circuits for processing time-varying information in echolocating batsp. 536
Jitter detection: a brief review and some new experimentsp. 546
Auditory temporal asymmetry and autocorrelationp. 554
Connecting correlograms to neurophysiologyp. 563
The perceptual asymmetry of frequency modulationp. 571
Auditory processing of sounds with temporal regularity: auditory processing of iterated rippled noisep. 578
Measured and predicted responses to amplitude-modulated sounds in the inferior colliculusp. 587
Neural coding of the temporal envelope of speech: relation to modulation transfer functionsp. 595
Specific language impairment: abnormal auditory masking and the potential for its remediation through trainingp. 604
Author Indexp. 611
Subject Indexp. 612
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