Neuronal Mechanisms of Hearing

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Responses of Hair Cells to Low Frequency Tones and Their Relationship to the Extracellular Receptor Potentials and Sound Pressure Level in the Guinea Pig Cochlea....Pages 3-15
Some Comparative Aspects of a Cochlear Mechanism....Pages 17-30
The Parasympathetic Innervation of the Inner Ear and the Problem of Cochlear Efferents: Enzyme and Autoradiographic Studies....Pages 31-36
Adaptation and Dynamic Response Occurring at Hair Cell-Afferent Fiber Synapse....Pages 37-41
Phase Versus Frequency in Caiman Primary Auditory Fibres: Is There a Travelling Wave?....Pages 43-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
The Dynamics of pO 2 -Changes in the Perilymphatic Perfusate of the Guinea-Pig Cochlea Depending on the Metabolism....Pages 51-55
Analytical Studies on Biochemistry and Physiology of Perilymph (Guinea Pig)....Pages 57-61
Distribution of Microphonic Potentials in the Four Turns of the Guinea Pig Cochlea....Pages 63-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
The Dynamic Range Problem: Place and Time Coding at the Level of Cochlear Nerve and Nucleus....Pages 69-85
Coding of Complex Sounds in the Auditory Nervous System....Pages 87-103
On Predicting the Response of Auditory Nerve Fibers to Complex Tones....Pages 105-111
Effects of Masking Noise on the Representation of Vowel Spectra in the Auditory Nerve....Pages 113-118
Neuronal Circuits in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus....Pages 119-125
The Internal Organization of the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus....Pages 127-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Functional Organization of the Inferior Colliculus....Pages 137-153
Integration and Segregation of Input to the Cat Inferior Colliculus....Pages 155-161
Some Facets of the Organization of the Principal Division of the Cat Medial Geniculate Body....Pages 163-181
Functional Organization of the Medial Geniculate Body Studied by Simultaneous Recordings of Single Unit Pairs....Pages 183-186
Possibilities of Recording Multiunit Activity in the Auditory Pathway....Pages 187-190
Poststimulatory Effects in the Medial Geniculate Body of Guinea Pigs....Pages 191-196
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
How Biosonar Information is Represented in the Bat Cerebral Cortex....Pages 197-219
Three-Dimensional Study of Evoked Field Potentials in the Auditory Cortex of the Cat....Pages 221-224
Differential Diagnosis of Hearing Disorders — Clinical Findings Contributing to Information Processing in the Auditory Pathway....Pages 225-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Binaural Interaction in the Cat Inferior Colliculus: Comparison of the Physiological Data with a Computer Simulated Model....Pages 233-238
Coding Properties of the Different Nuclei of the Cat’s Medial Geniculate Body....Pages 239-243
Interaural Delay Sensitive Units in the MGB of the Cat....Pages 245-249
Temporal Information in the Medial Geniculate Body....Pages 251-256
Some Investigations of Acoustical Evoked Potentials from Peripheral and Central Structures of the Auditory Pathway in Rabbits....Pages 257-259
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Anatomical-Behavioral Analyses of Hindbrain Sound Localization Mechanisms....Pages 263-275
Effects of Unilateral Ablation of Anteroventral Cochlear Nucleus on Localization of Sound in Space....Pages 277-282
Binaural Interaction Models and Mechanisms....Pages 283-288
Psychophysical and Neurophysiological Data on the Sound Source Perception....Pages 289-299
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
Information Processing in Neuronal Populations of the Human Brain during Learning of Verbal Signals....Pages 303-306
A Comparison of the Responses Evoked by Artificial Stimuli and Vocalizations in the Inferior Colliculus of Squirrel Monkeys....Pages 307-310
Acoustic Properties of Central Auditory Pathway Neurons during Phonation in the Squirrel Monkey....Pages 311-315
Selectivity of Auditory Neurons for Vowels and Consonants in the Forebrain of the Mynah Bird....Pages 317-321
Some Aspects of Functional Organization of the Auditory Neostriatum (Field L) in the Guinea Fowl....Pages 323-327
14-C-Deoxyglucose Labeling of the Auditory Neostriatum in Young and Adult Guinea Fowl....Pages 329-334
Integration of Voco-Auditory Centers in Song Birds....Pages 335-339
Response Properties and Spike Waveforms of Single Units in the Torus Semicircularis of the Grassfrog (Rana Temporaria) as Related to Recording Site....Pages 341-345
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
Coding of Amplitude-Modulated Tones in the Midbrain Auditory Region of the Frog....Pages 347-352
Front Matter....Pages 353-353
Effects of Early Auditory Stimulation on Cortical Centers....Pages 355-358
Effects of Acoustic Deprivation on Morphological Parameters of Development of Auditory Neurons in Rat....Pages 359-362
Behavioral and Anatomical Studies of Central Auditory Development....Pages 363-367
Input — Dependent 2-Deoxy-D-Glucose Uptake in the Central Auditory System of Rana Temporaria....Pages 369-375
Plastic Changes in the Inferior Colliculus Following Cochlear Destruction....Pages 377-380
Developmental Changes of Auditory Evoked Responses in Normal and Kanamycin Treated Rats....Pages 381-385
Front Matter....Pages 387-387
Physiological Background of Hearing Prostheses....Pages 389-410
Electrical Stimulation of the Human Cochlea — Psychophysical and Speech Studies....Pages 411-415
Preliminary Speech Perception Results through a Cochlear Prosthesis....Pages 417-421
Tactile Aid for the Deaf: Search of a Code Allowing Somesthetic Processing of Acoustic Messages....Pages 423-426
Back Matter....Pages 427-443