Oxford Handbook of Auditory Science: The Ear, the Auditory Brain, Hearing (3 Volume Pack)

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Volume 1: The Ear (edited by Paul Fuchs)
Volume 2: The Auditory Brain (edited by Alan Palmer and Adrian Rees)
Volume 3: Hearing (edited by Chris Plack)

Auditory science is one of the fastest growing areas of biomedical research. There are now around 10,000 researchers in auditory science, and ten times that number working in allied professions. This growth is attributable to several major developments:

Research on the inner ear has shown that elaborate systems of mechanical, transduction and neural processes serve to improve sensitivity, sharpen frequency tuning, and modulate response of the ear to sound. Most recently, the molecular machinery underlying these phenomena has been explored and described in detail. The development, maintenance, and repair of the ear are also subjects of contemporary interest at the molecular level, as is the genetics of hearing disorders due to cochlear malfunctions.

The auditory brain has now been shown to consist of much more than the regions of the classical 'central auditory system'. Through fMRI studies in humans and the application of novel methods in animal research, the cortical areas involved in hearing and listening in primates have been found to extend beyond the superior temporal plane into more rostral and ventral regions of the temporal cortex, and into parietal and frontal lobes. At the same time, our understanding of subcortical and core cortical areas has expanded through the use of spectrally complex stimuli and multi-channel recordings, increasingly in awake, behaving animals.

Studies of auditory perception have increasingly focused on auditory 'ecology', on complex sound perception in real (or virtual) environments. Traditional distinctions between spectral, temporal and binaural processing have evolved into more functional concerns, with speech, pitch, spatial hearing and auditory object perception. Dynamic properties of hearing are becoming more prominent as adaptation and learning receive increasing recognition. Finally, influences of hearing on and by cognition (attention, memory and emotion), action and vision add to a picture of a powerful, working, integrated sense that is, arguably, the most important contributor to our interaction with our world.

With each volume dedicated to one these core topics, The Oxford Handbook of Auditory Science is a major publication in the field. It brings together the views of leading researchers in the field to provide a comprehensive and authoritative review of the current state of the art in auditory science.

The breadth of coverage, coupled with the accessibility of the short chapter format will make the handbook essential reading for both students and researchers in the field of audition, as well as those in psychology and neuroscience. Clinical audiologists and otolaryngologists will also find this handbook an indispensable reference source.

Readership: Students and researchers in auditory science, neuroscience, ENT, and Psychology

Table of Contents

Volume 1: The Ear (edited by Paul Fuchs)

1: Paul Fuchs: Introduction and overview
2: Lawrence Robert Lustig: The clinical cochlea
3: John Rosowski: External and middle ear function
4: David T Kemp: Otoascoustic emissions and evoked potentials
5: Egbert De Boer & Alfred L Nuttall: Cochlear mechanics, tuning, non-linearities
6: Kuni Iwasa: Electromotility of outer hair cells
7: Dan Marcus & Philine Wangemann: Inner ear fluid homeostasis
8: Carole M Hackney & David Furness: Haair bundle structure and mechanotransduction
9: Jonathan Ashmore: The afferent synapse
10: A Belen Elgoyhen & Paul Fuchs: Efferent innervation and function
11: Jonathan Gale & Daniel Jagger: Cochlear supporting cells
12: Lynne Bianchi & Paul Fuchs: Development of the inner ear
13: Douglas Cotanche: Regeneration of the cochlea
14: Cynthia Morton & Anne B Giersch: Genetics of hearing loss
15: John Niparko & Andrea Marlowe: Hearing aids and cochlear implants

Volume 2: The Auditory Brain (edited by Alan Palmer and Adrian Rees)

1: Adrian Rees & Alan R Palmer: Overview

Section I - Structural and Functional Organization of the Auditory Brain
2: Manuel S Malmierca & Troy A Hackett: Structural organization of the ascending auditory pathway
3: Brett R Schofield: Structural organization of the descending auditory pathway
4: Richard A Altschuler & Susan E Shore: Central auditory neurotransmitters

Section II - Information Coding in the Auditory Brain: Sound Identification
5: Eric D Young: Level and spectrum
6: Brian J Malone & Christoph E Schreiner: Time varying sounds: amplitude envelope modulations
7: Xiaoqin Wang & Daniel Bendor: Pitch
8: Achim Klug & Benedikt Grothe: Ethological stimuli
9: Sophie K Scott & Donal G Sinex: Speech
10: Yonatan I Fishman & Mitchell Steinschneider: Formation of auditory streams
11: Jufang He & Yanqin Yu: role of descending control in the auditory pathway

Section III - Information Coding in the Auditory Brain: Sound Location
12: Tom Yin & Shigeyuki Kuwada: Binaural localization cues
13: Bradford J May: Sound location: monaural cues and spectral cues for elevation
14: Ruth Y Litovsky & David McAlpine: Physiological correlates of the precedence effect and binaural masking level differences

Section IV - Development, Aging and Plasticity of the Auditory Brain
15: Douglas E H Hartley & Andrew J King: Development of the auditory pathway
16: Dexter E F Irvine: Plasticity of the auditory pathway
17: Robert Frisina: Aging changes in the central auditory system

Section V - Cognition and Emotion in the Auditory Brain
18: Norman M Weinberger: The cognitive auditory cortex
19: Jorge L Armony & Joseph E LeDoux: Emotional responses to auditory stimuli

Section VI - Pathology of the Auditory Brain
20: Timothy D Griffiths, Doris-Eva Bamiou & Jason Warren: Disorders of the auditory brain
21: Jos J Eggermont: Tinnitus
22: Robert V Shannon: Auditory prostheses for the brainstem and midbrain

Volume 3: Hearing (edited by Chris Plack)

1: Christopher J. Plack: Overview
2: Andrew J. Oxenham & Magdalena Wojczak: Frequency selectivity and masking
3: Michael Epstein & Jeremy Marozeau: Loudness and intensity coding
4: Alain de Cheveigné: Pitch perception
5: Jesko L. Verhey: Temporal resolution and temporal integration
6: John F. Culling & Michael A. Akeroyd: Spatial hearing
7: William P. Shofner & Andrew J. Niemiec: Comparative psycoacoustics
8: Benjamin J. Dyson: Auditory organization
9: Christopher J. Darwin: Speech perception
10: W. Jay Dowling: Music perception
11: Charles Spence & Valerio Santangelo: Auditory attention
12: Charles Spence & Salvador Soto-Faraco: Auditory perception: interactions with vision
13: Karen Mattock, Sygal Amitay & David R. Moore: Auditory development and learning
14: Fan-Gang Zeng & Hamid Djalilian: Hearing impairment
15: Lorna Halliday & David R. Moore: Auditory basis of language and learning disorders
16: William J. Davies: The acoustic environment

Author Information

Edited by David Moore, MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, UK, Paul Fuchs, Center for Hearing and Balance, The John Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA, Alan Palmer, MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, UK, Adrian Rees, School of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Psychiatry, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK, and Christopher Plack, Human Communication and Deafness Division, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester