Auditory Signal Processing: Physiology, Psychoacoustics, and Models

✍ Scribed by Mary Ann Cheatham (auth.), Daniel Pressnitzer, Alain de Cheveigné, Stephen McAdams, Lionel Collet (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 536
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Nonlinearities at the apex of the cochlea: Implications for auditory perception....Pages 1-6
Reconstructing the traveling wave from auditory nerve responses....Pages 7-13
A computational algorithm for computing cochlear frequency selectivity: Further studies....Pages 14-20
Comparison of the compressive-gammachirp and double-roex auditory filters....Pages 21-29
Reaction-time data support the existence of Softness Imperception in cochlear hearing loss....Pages 30-39
Normal and impaired level encoding: Effects of noise-induced hearing loss on auditory-nerve responses....Pages 40-49
Estimates of Cochlear Compression from Measurements of Loudness Growth....Pages 50-59
Additivity of masking and auditory compression....Pages 60-66
Psychophysical response growth under suppression....Pages 67-74
The function(s) of the medial olivocochlear efferent system in hearing....Pages 75-83
A computational model of cochlear nucleus neurons....Pages 84-90
Study on improving regularity of neural phase locking in single neurons of AVCN via a computational model....Pages 91-99
Fibers in the trapezoid body show enhanced synchronization to broadband noise when compared to auditory nerve fibers....Pages 100-106
Representations of the pitch of complex tones in the auditory nerve....Pages 107-116
Coding of pitch and amplitude modulation in the auditory brainstem: One common mechanism?....Pages 117-125
Pitch perception of complex tones within and across ears and frequency regions....Pages 126-135
Internal noise and memory for pitch....Pages 136-144
Time constants in temporal pitch extraction: A comparison of psychophysical and neuromagnetic data....Pages 145-153
Auditory processing at the lower limit of pitch studied by magnetoencephalography....Pages 154-161
Auditory maps in the midbrain: The inferior colliculus....Pages 162-168
Representation of frequency modulation in the primary auditory cortex of New World monkeys....Pages 169-175
Frequency change velocity and acceleration detector: A bird or a red herring?....Pages 176-184
Representations of the pitch of complex tones in the auditory nerve....Pages 185-194
The role of spectral change detectors in sequential grouping of tones....Pages 195-201
Performance measures of auditory organization....Pages 202-210
Auditory streaming without spectral cues in hearing-impaired subjects....Pages 211-219
The role of temporal structure in envelope processing....Pages 220-228
Detecting changes in amplitude-modulation frequency: A test of the concept of excitation pattern in the temporal-envelope domain....Pages 229-235
Modeling the role of duration in intensity increment detection....Pages 236-242
Minimum integration times for processing of amplitude modulation....Pages 243-249
Neural mechanisms for analyzing temporal patterns in echolocating bats....Pages 250-256
Time-critical frequency integration of complex communication sounds in the auditory cortex of the mouse....Pages 257-263
Transformation of stimulus representations in the ascending auditory system....Pages 264-273
AM and FM coherence sensitivity in the auditory cortex as a potential neural mechanism for sound segregation....Pages 274-281
Auditory perception with slowly-varying amplitude and frequency modulations....Pages 282-290
The role of auditory-vocal interaction in hearing....Pages 291-297
From sound to meaning: Hierarchical processing in speech comprehension....Pages 298-305
Effects of differences in the accent and gender of competing voices on speech segregation....Pages 306-312
The Articulation Index is a Shannon channel capacity....Pages 313-319
Comodulation masking release and the role of wideband inhibition in the cochlear nucleus....Pages 320-326
The relevance of rate and time cues for CMR in starling auditory forebrain neurons....Pages 327-333
Effects of concurrent and sequential streaming in comodulation masking release....Pages 334-342
Effects of contralateral sound stimulation on forward masking in the guinea pig....Pages 343-353
Inhibition in models of coincidence detection....Pages 354-360
What can auditory evoked potentials tell us about binaural processing in humans?....Pages 361-368
Sensitivity to changes in interaural time difference and interaural correlation in the inferior colliculus....Pages 369-375
Processing of interaural temporal disparities with both “transposed” and conventional stimuli....Pages 376-388
Sound localization in the frontal horizontal plane by post-lingually deafened adults fitted with bilateral cochlear implants....Pages 389-396
Discrimination of different temporal envelope structures of diotic and dichotic target signals within diotic wide-band noise....Pages 397-403
A cat’s cocktail party: Psychophysical, neurophysiological, and computational studies of spatial release from masking....Pages 404-412
Localization of noise in a reverberant environment....Pages 413-421
Listening in real-room reverberation: Effects of extrinsic context....Pages 422-427
Psychophysical and physiological studies of the precedence effect and echo threshold in the behaving cat....Pages 428-434
Some similarities between the temporal resolution and the temporal integration of interaural time differences....Pages 435-441
Binaural “sluggishness” as a function of stimulus bandwidth....Pages 442-452
Auditory thresholds re-visited....Pages 453-469
Discrimination of temporal fine structure by birds and mammals....Pages 470-476
Dependence of binaural and cochlear “best delays” on characteristic frequency....Pages 477-483
The enigma of cortical responses: Slow yet precise....Pages 484-493
Learning-induced sensory plasticity: Rate code, temporal code, or both?....Pages 494-499
Synaptic dynamics and intensity coding in the cochlear nucleus....Pages 500-508
Learning and generalization on five basic auditory discrimination tasks as assessed by threshold changes....Pages 509-515

✦ Subjects

Neurobiology;Neurosciences;Otorhinolaryngology