Hearing - from Sensory Processing to Perception

About this book

Hearing – From Sensory Processing to Perception presents the papers of the latest "International Symposium on Hearing," a meeting held every three years focusing on psychoacoustics and the research of the physiological mechanisms underlying auditory perception. The proceedings provide an up-to-date report on the status of the field of research into hearing and auditory functions.
The 59 chapters treat topics such as: the physiological representation of temporal and spectral stimulus properties as a basis for the perception of modulation patterns, pitch and signal intensity; spatial hearing and the physiological mechanisms of binaural processing in mammals; integration of the different stimulus features into auditory scene analysis; physiological mechanisms related to the formation of auditory objects; speech perception; and limitations of auditory perception resulting from hearing disorders.

Written for:

Researchers specialized in hearing physiology and psychophysics

Keywords:

• auditory functions
• binaural processing
• psychoacoustics

Contents

Part I Cochlea/Peripheral Processing

1 Influence of Neural Synchrony on the Compound Action Potential, Masking, and the Discrimination of Harmonic Complexes
in Several Avian and Mammalian Species - OTTO GLEICH, MARJORIE LEEK, AND ROBERT DOOLING
2 A Nonlinear Auditory Filterbank Controlled by Sub-band Instantaneous Frequency Estimates - VOLKER HOHMANN AND BIRGER KOLLMEIER
3 Estimates of Tuning of Auditory Filter Using Simultaneous and Forward Notched-noise Masking - MASASHI UNOKI, RYOTA MIYAUCHI, AND CHIN-TUAN TAN
4 A Model of Ventral Cochlear Nucleus Units Based on First Order Intervals - STEFAN BLEECK AND IAN WINTER
5 The Effect of Reverberation on the Temporal Representation of the F0 of Frequency Swept Harmonic Complexes in the Ventral Cochlear Nucleus - MARK SAYLES, BERT SCHOUTEN, NEIL J. INGHAM, AND IAN M. WINTER
6 Spectral Edges as Optimal Stimuli for the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus - SHARBA BANDYOPADHYAY, ERIC D. YOUNG, AND LINA A. J. REISS
7 Psychophysical and Physiological Assessment of the Representation of High-frequency Spectral Notches in the Auditory Nerve - ENRIQUE A. LOPEZ-POVEDA, ANA ALVES-PINTO, AND ALAN R. PALMER

Part II Pitch

8 Spatio-Temporal Representation of the Pitch of Complex Tones in the Auditory Nerve - LEONARDO CEDOLIN AND BERTRAND DELGUTTE
9 Virtual Pitch in a Computational Physiological Model - RAY MEDDIS AND LOWEL O’MARD
10 Searching for a Pitch Centre in Human Auditory Cortex - DEB HALL AND CHRISTOPHER PLACK
11 Imaging Temporal Pitch Processing in the Auditory Pathway - ROY D. PATTERSON, ALEXANDER GUTSCHALK, ANNEMARIE SEITHER-PREISLER, AND KATRIN KRUMBHOLZ

Part III Modulation

12 Spatiotemporal Encoding of Vowels in Noise Studied with the Responses of Individual Auditory-Nerve Fibers - MICHAEL G. HEINZ
13 Role of Peripheral Nonlinearities in Comodulation Masking Release - JESKO L. VERHEY AND STEPHAN M.A. ERNST
14 Neuromagnetic Representation of Comodulation Masking Release in the Human Auditory Cortex - ANDRÉ RUPP, LIORA LAS, AND ISRAEL NELKEN
15 Psychophysically Driven Studies of Responses to Amplitude Modulation in the Inferior Colliculus: Comparing Single-Unit Physiology to Behavioral Performance - PAUL C. NELSON AND LAUREL H. CARNEY
16 Source Segregation Based on Temporal Envelope Structure and Binaural Cues - STEVEN VAN DE PAR, OTHMAR SCHIMMEL, ARMIN KOHLRAUSCH, AND JEROEN BREEBAART
17 Simulation of Oscillating Neurons in the Cochlear Nucleus: A Possible Role for Neural Nets, Onset Cells, and Synaptic Delays - ANDREAS BAHMER AND GERALD LANGNER
18 Forward Masking: Temporal Integration or Adaptation? - STEPHAN D. EWERT, OLE HAU, AND TORSTEN DAU
19 The Time Course of Listening Bands - PIERRE DIVENYI AND ADAM LAMMERT

Part IV Animal Communication

20 Frogs Communicate with Ultrasound in Noisy Environments - PETER M. NARINS, ALBERT S. FENG, AND JUN-XIAN SHEN
21 The Olivocochlear System Takes Part in Audio-Vocal Interaction - STEFFEN R. HAGE, UWE JÜRGENS, AND GÜNTER EHRET
22 Neural Representation of Frequency Resolution in the Mouse Auditory Midbrain - MARINA EGOROVA , INNA VARTANYAN, AND GUENTER EHRET
23 Behavioral and Neural Identification of Birdsong under Several Masking Conditions - BARBARA G. SHINN-CUNNINGHAM, VIRGINIA BEST, MICHEAL L. DENT, FREDERICK J. GALLUN, ELIZABETH M. MCCLAINE, RAJIV NARAYAN, EROL OZMERAL, AND KAMAL SEN

Part V Intensity Representation

24 Near-Threshold Auditory Evoked Fields and Potentials are In Line with the Weber-Fechner Law - BERND LÜTKENHÖNER, JAN-STEFAN KLEIN, AND ANNEMARIE SEITHER-PREISLER
25 Brain Activation in Relation to Sound Intensity and Loudness - DAVE LANGERS, WALTER BACKES, AND PIM VAN DIJK
26 Duration Dependency of Spectral Loudness Summation, Measured with Three Different Experimental Procedures - MAARTEN F.B. VAN BEURDEN AND WOUTER A. DRESCHLER

Part VI Scene Analysis

27 The Correlative Brain: A Stream Segregation Model - MOUNYA ELHILALI AND SHIHAB SHAMMA
28 Primary Auditory Cortical Responses while Attending to Different Streams - PINGBO YIN, LING MA, MOUNYA ELHILALI, JONATHAN FRITZ, AND SHIHAB SHAMMA
29 Hearing Out Repeating Elements in Randomly Varying Multitone Sequences: A Case of Streaming? - CHRISTOPHE MICHEYL, SHIHAB A. SHAMMA, AND ANDREW J. OXENHAM
30 The Dynamics of Auditory Streaming: Psychophysics, Neuroimaging, and Modeling - MAKIO KASHINO, MINAE OKADA, SHIN MIZUTANI, PETER DAVIS, AND HIROHITO M. KONDO
31 Auditory Stream Segregation Based on Speaker Size, and Identification of Size-Modulated Vowel Sequences - MINORU TSUZAKI, CHIHIRO TAKESHIMA, TOSHIO IRINO, AND ROY D. PATTERSON
32 Auditory Scene Analysis: A Prerequisite for Loudness Perception - NICOLAS GRIMAULT, STEPHEN MCADAMS, AND JONT B. ALLEN
33 Modulation Detection Interference as Informational Masking - STANLEY SHEFT AND WILLIAM A. YOST
34 A Paradoxical Aspect of Auditory Change Detection - LAURENT DEMANY AND CHRISTOPHE RAMOS
35 Human Auditory Cortical Processing of Transitions Between ‘Order’ and ‘Disorder’ - MARIA CHAIT, DAVID POEPPEL, AND JONATHAN Z. SIMON
36 Wideband Inhibition Modulates the Effect of Onset Asynchrony as a Grouping Cue - BRIAN ROBERTS, STEPHEN D. HOLMES, STEFAN BLEECK, AND IAN M. WINTER
37 Discriminability of Statistically Independent Gaussian Noise Tokens and Random Tone-Burst Complexes - TOM GOOSSENS, STEVEN VAN DE PAR, AND ARMIN KOHLRAUSCH
38 The Role of Rehearsal and Lateralization in Pitch Memory - CHRISTIAN KAERNBACH, KATHRIN SCHLEMMER, CHRISTINA ÖFFL, AND SANDRA ZACH

Part VII Binaural Hearing

39 Interaural Correlation and Loudness - JOHN F. CULLING AND BARRIE A. EDMONDS
40 Interaural Phase and Level Fluctuations as the Basis of Interaural Incoherence Detection - MATTHEW J. GOUPELL AND WILLIAM M. HARTMANN
41 Logarithmic Scaling of Interaural Cross Correlation: A Model Based on Evidence from Psychophysics and EEG - HELGE LÜDDEMANN, HELMUT RIEDEL, AND BIRGER KOLLMEIER
42 A Physiologically-Based Population Rate Code for Interaural Time Differences (ITDs) Predicts Bandwidth-Dependent Lateralization - KENNETH E. HANCOCK
43 A p-Limit for Coding ITDs: Neural Responses and the Binaural Display - DAVID MCALPINE, SARAH THOMPSON, KATHARINA VON KRIEGSTEIN, TORSTEN MARQUARDT, TIMOTHY GRIFFITHS, AND ADENIKE DEANE-PRATT
44 A p-Limit for Coding ITDs: Implications for Binaural Models - TORSTEN MARQUARDT AND DAVID MCALPINE
45 Strategies for Encoding ITD in the Chicken Nucleus Laminaris - CATHERINE CARR AND CHRISTINE KÖPPL
46 Interaural Level Difference Discrimination Thresholds and Virtual Acoustic Space Minimum Audible Angles for Single Neurons in the Lateral Superior Olive - DANIEL J. TOLLIN
47 Responses in Inferior Colliculus to Dichotic Harmonic Stimuli: The Binaural Integration of Pitch Cues - TREVOR M. SHACKLETON, LIANG-FA LIU, AND ALAN R. PALMER
48 Level Dependent Shifts in Auditory Nerve Phase Locking Underlie Changes in Interaural Time Sensitivity with Interaural Level Differences in the Inferior Colliculus - ALAN R. PALMER, LIANG-FA LIU, AND TREVOR M. SHACKLETON
49 Remote Masking and the Binaural Masking-Level Difference - G. BRUCE HENNING, IFAT YASIN, AND CAROLINE WITTON
50 Perceptual and Physiological Characteristics of Binaural Sluggishness - IDA SIVEKE, STEPHAN D. EWERT, AND LUTZ WIEGREBE
51 Precedence-Effect with Cochlear Implant Simulation - BERNHARD U. SEEBER AND ERVIN HAFTER
52 Enhanced Processing of Interaural Temporal Disparities at High-Frequencies: Beyond Transposed Stimuli - LESLIE R. BERNSTEIN AND CONSTANTINE TRAHIOTIS
53 Models of Neural Responses to Bilateral Electrical Stimulation - H. STEVEN COLBURN, YOOJIN CHUNG, YI ZHOU, AND ANDREW BRUGHERA
54 Neural and Behavioral Sensitivities to Azimuth Degrade with Distance in Reverberant Environments - SASHA DEVORE, ANTJE IHLEFELD, BARBARA G. SHINN-CUNNINGHAM, AND BERTRAND DELGUTTE

Part VIII Speech and Learning

55 Spectro-temporal Processing of Speech – An Information-Theoretic Framework - THOMAS U. CHRISTIANSEN, TORSTEN DAU, AND STEVEN GREENBERG
56 Articulation Index and Shannon Mutual Information - ARNE LEIJON
57 Perceptual Compensation for Reverberation: Effects of ‘Noise-Like’ and ‘Tonal’ Contexts - ANTHONY WATKINS AND SIMON MAKIN
58 Towards Predicting Consonant Confusions of Degraded Speech - O. GHITZA, D. MESSING, L. DELHORNE, L. BRAIDA, E. BRUCKERT, AND M. SONDHI
59 The Influence of Masker Type on the Binaural Intelligibility Level Difference - S. THEO GOVERTS, MARIEKE DELREUX , JOOST M. FESTEN, AND TAMMO HOUTGAST

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