HEARING — Physiological Bases and Psychophysics: Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Hearing, Bad Nauheim, Germany, April 5–9, 1983

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Review Paper: Hair Cells, Receptors with a Motor Capacity?....Pages 2-9
Inner Hair Cell Receptor Potentials Investigated During Transient Asphyxia: A Model for Hair Cell Coupling....Pages 10-16
Frequency Tuning and Ionic Conductances in Hair Cells of the Bullfrog’s Sacculus....Pages 17-24
Synaptic Hyperpolarisation and Loss of Tuning in Turtle Cochlear Hair Cells....Pages 25-31
Cochlear Electroanatomy: Influence on Information Processing....Pages 32-38
Electrochemical Profile for Potassium Ions Across the Hair-Cell Membranes....Pages 39-45
Comparison of Basilar Membrane, Hair Cell and Neural Responses....Pages 46-50
Thermal Noise and Active Processes in the Inner Ear: Relating Theory to Experiment....Pages 51-57
Cochlear Potentials in Homozygous and Heterozygous Bronx Waltzer Mice....Pages 58-60
Dual Acoustical Sensitivity in Frogs....Pages 61-69
Frequency Coding in the Inner Ear of Anuran Amphibians....Pages 70-76
On the Frequency-Distribution of Spontaneous Cochlear Emissions....Pages 77-81
A Comparison of Mechanical Nonlinearities in the Cochleae of Man and Gerbil from Ear Canal Measurements....Pages 82-88
Psychophysical Aspects of Cochlear Acoustic Emissions (“Kemp-Tones”)....Pages 89-96
“A Family with High-Tonal Objective Tinnitus” - An Update....Pages 97-103
On Peripheral Processing in Human Hearing....Pages 104-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Intensity Functions and Dynamic Responses from the Cochlea to the Cochlear Nucleus....Pages 112-118
Representation of Acoustic Stimuli in the Presence of Background Sounds: Adaptation in the Auditory Nerve and Cochlear Nucleus....Pages 119-127
Nonlinear Behavior at Threshold Determined in the Auditory Canal and on the Auditory Nerve....Pages 128-134
Peripheral Auditory Adaptation and Forward Masking....Pages 135-139
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Pitch and Cochlear Nerve Fibre Temporal Discharge Patterns....Pages 140-146
Suppression in Neural Response of the Auditory System to Click Pairs and to Cosine Noise....Pages 147-154
Auditory-Nerve Fibre Correlates of the Critical Bandwidth as Determined by Loudness Estimation....Pages 155-161
Dynamic Maintenance and Alterability of Cortical Maps in Adults; Some Implications....Pages 162-168
Temporal Resolution of Amplitude Modulation and Complex Signals in the Auditory Cortex of the Cat....Pages 169-175
The Distribution of the Olivo-Cochlear Bundle and its Possible Role in Frequency/Intensity Coding....Pages 176-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Review Paper: Psychoacoustic Binaural Phenomena....Pages 182-189
Recent Developments in Binaural Modeling....Pages 190-195
Lateralization of Transient Signals and Types of Delay....Pages 196-201
Lateralization of Transients Presented at High Rates: Site of the Saturation Effect....Pages 202-208
Dynamic Cues in Binaural Perception....Pages 209-215
Cat Superior Olivary Complex (SOC): The Basis of Binaural Information Processing....Pages 216-223
Structure and Function of Crossed and Uncrossed Pathways to the Inferior Colliculus in the Rat....Pages 224-229
Monaural and Binaural Contributions to an Auditory Space Map in the Guinea-Pig Superior Colliculus....Pages 230-236
Binaural Hearing and Neural Interaction....Pages 237-243
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Review Paper: Psychoacoustics of Normal and Impaired Listeners....Pages 246-256
Loudness Adaptation Induced Interaurally and Monaurally....Pages 257-263
Accounting for the Loudness of a Sinusoid in Noise....Pages 264-269
The Role of Modulation in Hearing....Pages 270-276
On the Perception of Spectral Modulations....Pages 277-281
Front Matter....Pages 245-245
Fluctuation Strength of Modulated Tones and Broadband Noise....Pages 282-288
Monaural Phase Effects in Masking with Multicomponent Signals....Pages 289-295
Decay of Pulsation Threshold Patterns....Pages 296-302
Front Matter....Pages 303-303
Mutual Pitch Influence of Components in a Compound Sound....Pages 304-308
Monotic and Dichotic Pitch JND’s Compared....Pages 309-314
Pitch Discrimination and Musical Interval Recognition in Backward Masking....Pages 315-320
Threshold Duration for Melodic Pitch....Pages 321-326
Pitch of Sinusoids and Complex Tones Above 10 kHz....Pages 327-333
Neuronal Mechanisms for a Periodicity Analysis in the Time Domain....Pages 334-341
Front Matter....Pages 343-343
Auditory-Nerve Representation of Voice Pitch....Pages 344-351
JNDs for the Spectral Envelope Parameters in Natural Speech....Pages 352-358
The Reception Threshold of Interrupted Speech for Hearing-Impaired Listeners....Pages 359-363
Impaired Frequency/Time Resolution and its Effect on Speech Intelligibility....Pages 364-371
Cap Unmasking, Cap Tuning and Cap Thresholds in Humans....Pages 372-378
Some Aspects of Signal Processing in Individuals with Residual High-Frequency Hearing....Pages 379-384
The Relationship Between Pure-Tone Thresholds and Psychoacoustical Tuning Curves in the Hearing Impaired: Preliminary Findings....Pages 385-392
Dissociation Between Frequency Resolution and Hearing Threshold....Pages 393-399