Auditory Frequency Selectivity

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Changes in Cochlear Frequency Selectivity Produced by Tectorial-Membrane Manipulation....Pages 3-11
Basilar Membrane Tuning in the Pigeon Ear....Pages 13-21
Ultra-High Frequency Selectivity in the Horseshoe Bat: Does the Bat Use an Acoustic Interference Filter?....Pages 23-30
Asymmetry in Reflection of Cochlear Waves....Pages 31-38
The Effects of Temperature on Otoacoustic Emission Tuning Properties....Pages 39-48
Spontaneous Oto-Acoustic Emissions, Threshold in Quiet, and Just Noticeable Amplitude Modulation at Low Levels....Pages 49-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
The Evolution of the Mechanisms of Frequency Selectivity in Vertebrates....Pages 63-72
Harmonic Components in Hair Cell Responses....Pages 73-80
Membrane Currents in Isolated Turtle Hair Cells....Pages 81-88
Correlation Between the Kinetic Properties of Ionic Channels and the Frequency of Membrane-Potential Resonance in Hair Cells of the Bullfrog....Pages 89-95
Direct Evidence for an Active Mechanical Process in Mammalian Outer Hair Cells....Pages 97-101
The Cellular Physiology of Isolated Outer Hair Cells: Implications for Cochlear Frequency Selectivity....Pages 103-108
Outer Hair Cell Motility and Cochlear Frequency Selectivity....Pages 109-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Some Aspects of Rate Coding in the Auditory Nerve....Pages 121-128
Adaptation, Suppression and Tuning in Amphibian Acoustical Fibers....Pages 129-136
Frequency Selectivity, Adaptation, and Suppression in Goldfish Auditory Nerve Fibers....Pages 137-145
Frequency Selectivity of Acoustically Evoked Potentials from Peripheral and Central Vestibular Structures....Pages 147-151
Low Doses of Aminoglycosides Alter the Action Potential Tuning Curve Without Change in Threshold Sensitivity....Pages 153-160
Compound Action Potential (AP) Tuning in Man and Guinea Pig: Effect of Probe Tone Level and Hearing Loss....Pages 161-170
Auditory Nerve-Fibre Bandwidths Determined by Two Different Simultaneous Masking Procedures....Pages 171-178
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Single-Neuron Tuning Curves Measured with Psychoacoustic Masking Paradigms....Pages 179-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Basilar Membrane Motion and Spike Initiation in the Cochlear Nerve....Pages 189-198
Filtering Due to the Inner Hair-Cell Membrane Properties and its Relation to the Phase-Locking Limit in Cochlear Nerve Fibres....Pages 199-207
Phase Response of Low-Frequency Cochlear Ganglion Cells in the Starling....Pages 209-216
Synchronization and Suppression in Primary Auditory Fibers: An Examination of Vector Strength in Relation to Suppression....Pages 217-227
Effects of Phase- and Amplitude Spectrum in the Nonlinear Processing of Complex Stimuli in Single Fibers of the Auditory Nerve....Pages 229-239
Possible Role of Low and Medium Spontaneous Rate Cochlear Nerve Fibers in the Encoding of Waveform Periodicity....Pages 241-251
Cochlear Nerve Fibre Temporal Discharge Patterns, Cochlear Frequency Selectivity and the Dominant Region for Pitch....Pages 253-264
Strategies for the Representation of Broadband Stimuli in the Discharge Patterns of Auditory-Nerve Fibers....Pages 265-272
Comparisons Between Actual and Simulated Responses of Auditory Nerve Fibers Excited by Natural Stop Consonant-Vowel Syllables....Pages 273-280
Responses of Cochlear Nucleus Neurons to Speech Signals: Neural Encoding of Pitch, Intensity and other Parameters....Pages 281-288
Encoding the Acoustic Spectrum in the Spatio-Temporal Responses of the Auditory-Nerve....Pages 289-298
Thinning Periodicity Detectors for Modulated Pulse Streams....Pages 299-307
Front Matter....Pages 309-309
Critical Bandwidth at Low Frequencies Reconsidered....Pages 311-322
Frequency Resolution Measured by Adaptively Varying the Notchwidth: Results from Normals and Hearing Impaired....Pages 323-330
The Effect of Hearing Impairment on Auditory Filter Shapes in Simultaneous and Forward Masking....Pages 331-340
Tuning Curves at High Frequencies and their Relation to the Absolute Threshold Curve....Pages 341-350
‘Frequency’ and the Detection of Spectral Shape Change....Pages 351-359
Processing of Complex Signals and the Role of Inhibition....Pages 361-370
The Unimportance of Suppression....Pages 371-378
Front Matter....Pages 379-379
Effects of the Temporal Properties of a Masker upon Simultaneous-Masking Patterns....Pages 381-386
“Binaural Frequency Selectivity” and CMR....Pages 387-395
Masking of Short Noise Probes by Frequency Sweeps for Hearing-Impaired and Normal-Hearing Listeners....Pages 397-403
Front Matter....Pages 405-405
The Relationship Between Frequency Selectivity and Frequency Discrimination for Subjects with Unilateral and Bilateral Cochlear Impairments....Pages 407-417
Monaural Phase Sensitivity: Frequency Selectivity and Temporal Processes....Pages 419-427
On Thresholds of Short-Duration Intensity Increments and Decrements....Pages 429-436
The Role of Aural Frequency Analysis in Pitch Perception with Simultaneous Complex Tones....Pages 437-444
Back Matter....Pages 445-456