Plasticity and Signal Representation in the Auditory System

✍ Scribed by Alan R. Palmer, Benedikt Grothe (auth.), Josef Syka, Michael M. Merzenich (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 403
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume summarizes the state of development of auditory system neuroscience. This field is in an era of remarkable progress, particularly in the field of plasticity of the auditory system. New advances in understanding auditory system plasticity, based substantially on a large and growing body of results from animal experiments, are related to innumerable new insights into the physiology and pathology of speech and music perception and production generated by behavioral studies, and from the application of modern brain imaging techniques. We are living in an especially exciting period of research, marked by an almost astounding rate of advance in the development of our understanding of the hearing brain. The extraordinary series of reports published in this book document this rapid, further advance.

✦ Table of Contents

Interaural Time Difference Processing....Pages 1-13
Interplay of Excitation and Inhibition in Auditory Brainstem Processing at Endbulbs of Held of the MNTB and AVCN....Pages 15-36
Topographic Representation of Periodicity Information: The 2nd Neural Axis of the Auditory System....Pages 37-51
Complex Frequency Tuning of Neurons in the Mouse Inferior Colliculus....Pages 53-57
Role of KCC2 in Auditory Processing of the Brainstem....Pages 59-63
Spatial and Functional Properties of Neuronal Responses to Simulated Sound Source Motion in the Inferior Colliculus of the Cat....Pages 65-69
Temporal and Rate Representations of Time-Varying Signals in Auditory Cortex....Pages 71-83
Communication-Call Representation in the Mouse Auditory Cortex: Perception vs. Recognition....Pages 85-96
Molecular Mechanisms in Deafness Related Auditory Brain Stem Plasticity....Pages 97-107
Challenges to a Neuroanatomical Theory of Forebrain Auditory Plasticity....Pages 109-125
Rewiring Cortex: Functional Plasticity of the Auditory Cortex during Development....Pages 127-137
Plasticity of Tonotopic and Correlation Maps in Cat Primary Auditory Cortex....Pages 139-151
Small Cochlear Damage Causes Unmasking and Plasticity in Supra-Threshold Cortical Responses....Pages 153-167
Changes in Auditory Function Following Auditory Cortex Inactivation....Pages 169-180
Plastic Changes in the Primary Auditory Cortex in Cochlear Implanted Deaf Cats....Pages 181-190
Input Desynchronization and Impaired Columnar Activation in Deprived Auditory Cortex Revealed by Independent Component Analysis....Pages 191-195
Temporal Firing Activities of Auditory Cortical Neurons and Modification of Their Activities by Laser Irradiation....Pages 197-202
Neurodynamics in Auditory Cortex During Category Learning....Pages 203-215
Comparison of Two Rat Models of Aging....Pages 217-225
Age-Related Changes in Cochlear Function in Young and Adult Fischer 344 Rats....Pages 227-232
Psychoacoustics and Working Memory in Dyslexia....Pages 233-242
Frequency and Intensity Discrimination in Dyslexia....Pages 243-249
Speech Perception in Noise among Learning Disabled Teenagers....Pages 251-257
How Can The Neural Encoding and Perception of Speech Be Improved?....Pages 259-269
Hemispheric Processing of Prosody....Pages 271-276
Auditory Cortex Processing Streams: Where Are They and What Do They Do?....Pages 277-290
Congenital Amusia: Impaired Musical Pitch But Intact Musical Time....Pages 291-296
Time-Courses of 40 Hz Steady-State Responses Reveal Temporal Processing in the Central Auditory System....Pages 297-302
Auditory Cortex Role in Human Directional Hearing....Pages 303-309
True Auditory Lateralization Mismatch Responses Can Be Obtained by Changing the Binaural Cues Rather Than by Switching a Monaurally Presented Sound from One Ear to the Other....Pages 311-315
Perception of the Direction of Frequency Sweeps in Moving Ripple Noise Stimuli....Pages 317-322
Rippled-Spectrum Resolution as a Measure of Frequency Resolving Power of Hearing....Pages 323-328
Low Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in Brain Hyperexcitability Disorders Like Tinnitus and Auditory Hallucinations....Pages 329-334
Effects of Long Term Unilateral Hearing Loss on the Lateralization of fMRI Measured Activation in Human Auditory Cortex....Pages 335-346
Arguments in Favor of Auditory Reorganization in Human Subjects with Cochlear Damage....Pages 347-353
Central Auditory Processing and Language Learning Impairments: Implications for Neuroplasticity Research....Pages 355-385
Neuroplastic Adaptations of the Auditory System in Musicians and Nonmusicians....Pages 387-394
Functional and Structural Characteristics of Auditory Cortex in the Blind....Pages 395-400

✦ Subjects

Neurosciences; Human Physiology; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology