Hearing – From Sensory Processing to Perception

Cover......Page 1
Hearing – From Sensory Processing to Perception......Page 2
Title- Front Page......Page 3
Editors - Copyright......Page 4
Preface......Page 5
List of participants (and key to photograph)......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
1.Influence of Neural Synchrony on the Compound Action Potential, Masking, and the Discrimination of Harmonic Complexes in Several Avian and Mammalian Species......Page 15
2.A Nonlinear Auditory Filterbank Controlled by Sub-band Instantaneous Frequency Estimates......Page 25
3.Estimates of Tuning of Auditory Filter Using Simultaneous and Forward Notched-noise Masking......Page 33
4.A Model of Ventral Cochlear Nucleus Units Based on First Order Intervals......Page 41
5.The Effect of Reverberation on the Temporal Representation of the F0 of Frequency Swept Harmonic Complexes in the Ventral Cochlear Nucleus......Page 48
6.Spectral Edges as Optimal Stimuli for the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus......Page 56
7.Psychophysical and Physiological Assessment of the Representation of High-frequency Spectral Notches in the Auditory Nerve......Page 64
8.Spatio-Temporal Representation of the Pitch of Complex Tones in the Auditory Nerve......Page 73
9.Virtual Pitch in a Computational Physiological Model......Page 83
10.Searching for a Pitch Centre in Human Auditory Cortex......Page 94
11.Imaging Temporal Pitch Processing in the Auditory Pathway......Page 105
12.Spatiotemporal Encoding of Vowels in Noise Studied with the Responses of Individual Auditory-Nerve Fibers......Page 116
13.Role of Peripheral Nonlinearities in Comodulation Masking Release......Page 125
14.Neuromagnetic Representation of Comodulation Masking Release in the Human Auditory Cortex......Page 133
15.Psychophysically Driven Studies of Responses to Amplitude Modulation in the Inferior Colliculus: Comparing Single-Unit Physiology to Behavioral Performance......Page 141
16.Source Segregation Based on Temporal Envelope Structure and Binaural Cues......Page 150
17.Simulation of Oscillating Neurons in the Cochlear Nucleus: A Possible Role for Neural Nets, Onset Cells, and Synaptic Delays......Page 161
18.Forward Masking: Temporal Integration or Adaptation?......Page 171
19.The Time Course of Listening Bands......Page 181
20.Frogs Communicate with Ultrasound in Noisy Environments......Page 190
21.The Olivocochlear System Takes Part in Audio-Vocal Interaction......Page 196
22.Neural Representation of Frequency Resolution in the Mouse Auditory Midbrain......Page 203
23.Behavioral and Neural Identification of Birdsong under Several Masking Conditions......Page 210
24.Near-Threshold Auditory Evoked Fields and Potentials are In Line with the Weber-Fechner Law......Page 218
25.Brain Activation in Relation to Sound Intensity and Loudness......Page 229
26.Duration Dependency of Spectral Loudness Summation, Measured with Three Different Experimental Procedures......Page 238
27.The Correlative Brain: A Stream Segregation Model......Page 247
28.Primary Auditory Cortical Responses while Attending to Different Streams......Page 257
29.Hearing Out Repeating Elements in Randomly Varying Multitone Sequences: A Case of Streaming?......Page 266
30.The Dynamics of Auditory Streaming: Psychophysics, Neuroimaging, and Modeling......Page 274
31.Auditory Stream Segregation Based on Speaker Size, and Identification of Size-Modulated Vowel Sequences......Page 283
32.Auditory Scene Analysis: A Prerequisite for Loudness Perception......Page 293
33.Modulation Detection Interference as Informational Masking......Page 301
34.A Paradoxical Aspect of Auditory Change Detection......Page 310
35.Human Auditory Cortical Processing of Transitions Between ‘Order’ and ‘Disorder’......Page 319
36.Wideband Inhibition Modulates the Effect of Onset Asynchrony as a Grouping Cue......Page 328
37.Discriminability of Statistically Independent Gaussian Noise Tokens and Random Tone-Burst Complexes......Page 337
38.The Role of Rehearsal and Lateralization in Pitch Memory......Page 346
38.The Role of Rehearsal and Lateralization\rin Pitch Memory......Page 351
39.Interaural Correlation and Loudness......Page 356
40.Interaural Phase and Level Fluctuations as the Basis of Interaural Incoherence Detection......Page 366
41.Logarithmic Scaling of Interaural Cross Correlation: A Model Based on Evidence from Psychophysics and EEG......Page 375
42.A Physiologically-Based Population Rate Code for Interaural Time Differences (ITDs) Predicts Bandwidth-Dependent Lateralization......Page 385
43.A π-Limit for Coding ITDs: Neural Responses and the Binaural Display......Page 394
44.A π-Limit for Coding ITDs: Implications for Binaural Models......Page 402
45.Strategies for Encoding ITD in the Chicken Nucleus Laminaris......Page 412
46.Interaural Level Difference Discrimination Thresholds and Virtual Acoustic Space Minimum Audible Angles for Single Neurons in the Lateral Superior Olive......Page 420
47.Responses in Inferior Colliculus to Dichotic Harmonic Stimuli: The Binaural Integration of Pitch Cues......Page 429
48.Level Dependent Shifts in Auditory Nerve Phase Locking Underlie Changes in Interaural Time Sensitivity with Interaural Level Differences in the Inferior Colliculus......Page 441
49.Remote Masking and the Binaural Masking-Level Difference......Page 451
50.Perceptual and Physiological Characteristics of Binaural Sluggishness......Page 461
51.Precedence-Effect with Cochlear Implant Simulation......Page 469
52.Enhanced Processing of Interaural Temporal Disparities at High-Frequencies: Beyond Transposed Stimuli......Page 479
53.Models of Neural Responses to Bilateral Electrical Stimulation......Page 488
54.Neural and Behavioral Sensitivities to Azimuth Degrade with Distance in Reverberant Environments......Page 498
55.Spectro-temporal Processing of Speech – An Information-Theoretic Framework......Page 510
56.Articulation Index and Shannon Mutual Information......Page 517
57.Perceptual Compensation for Reverberation Effects of ‘Noise-Like’ and ‘Tonal’ Contexts......Page 525
58.Towards Predicting Consonant Confusions of Degraded Speech......Page 533
59.The Influence of Masker Type on the Binaural Intelligibility Level Difference......Page 543
Index......Page 551