Perspectives on Auditory Research

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
A Brief History of SHAR....Pages 1-8
Structures, Mechanisms, and Energetics in Temporal Processing....Pages 9-44
Human Auditory Cortex: In Search of the Flying Dutchman....Pages 45-64
From Cajal to the Connectome: Building a Neuroanatomical Framework for Understanding the Auditory System....Pages 65-78
Recording from Hair Cells....Pages 79-94
Three Decades of Tinnitus-Related Research....Pages 95-106
The Sense of Hearing in Fishes....Pages 107-123
A Quarter-Century’s Perspective on a Psychoacoustical Approach to Loudness....Pages 125-147
Nonsyndromic Deafness: It Ain’t Necessarily So....Pages 149-161
Evolving Mechanosensory Hair Cells to Hearing Organs by Altering Genes and Their Expression: The Molecular and Cellular Basis of Inner Ear and Auditory Organ Evolution and Development....Pages 163-182
The Implications of Discharge Regularity: My Forty-Year Peek into the Vestibular System....Pages 183-209
Aging, Hearing Loss, and Speech Recognition: Stop Shouting, I Can’t Understand You....Pages 211-228
Cochlear Mechanics, Otoacoustic Emissions, and Medial Olivocochlear Efferents: Twenty Years of Advances and Controversies Along with Areas Ripe for New Work....Pages 229-246
Examining Fish in the Sea: A European Perspective on Fish Hearing Experiments....Pages 247-267
The Behavioral Study of Mammalian Hearing....Pages 269-285
Hearing in Insects: The Why, When, and How....Pages 287-298
The Cognitive Auditory System: The Role of Learning in Shaping the Biology of the Auditory System....Pages 299-319
Fundamentals of Hearing in Amniote Vertebrates....Pages 321-341
Directional Hearing in Insects and Other Small Animals: The Physics of Pressure-Difference Receiving Ears....Pages 343-359
Distributed Cortical Representation of Sound Locations....Pages 361-378
Pitch: Mechanisms Underlying the Pitch of Pure and Complex Tones....Pages 379-402
Unavoidably Delayed: A Personal Perspective of Twenty Years of Research on a Sound Localization Cue....Pages 403-416
Size Matters in Hearing: How the Auditory System Normalizes the Sounds of Speech and Music for Source Size....Pages 417-440
A Changing View of the Auditory System Obtained from the Ears of Bats....Pages 441-466
From Cave Fish to Pile Driving: A Tail of Fish Bioacoustics....Pages 467-492
Current Topics in the Study of Sound Conduction to the Inner Ear....Pages 493-511
From Degenerative Debris to Neuronal Tracing: An Anterograde View of Auditory Circuits....Pages 513-531
Adventures in Bionic Hearing....Pages 533-550
My Dull Deaf Ears: Four Millennia of Acquired Hearing Loss....Pages 551-567
What’s the Use of Genetics?....Pages 569-584
Advances in the Understanding of Binaural Information Processing: Consideration of the Stimulus as Processed....Pages 585-600
Temporal Processing: Observations on the Psychophysics and Modeling of Temporal Integration and Temporal Resolution....Pages 601-610
Psychoacoustics and Auditory Perception....Pages 611-631
Back Matter....Pages 633-667