Ebook: Basic Aspects of Hearing: Physiology and Perception

The International Symposium on Hearing is a highly-prestigious, triennial event where world-class scientists present and discuss the most recent advances in the field of hearing research in animals and humans. Presented papers range from basic to applied research, and are of interest neuroscientists, otolaryngologists, psychologists, and artificial intelligence researchers.

Basic Aspects of Hearing: Physiology and Perception includes the best papers from the 2012 International Symposium on Hearing. Over 50 chapters focus on the relationship between auditory physiology, psychoacoustics, and computational modeling.

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The International Symposium on Hearing is a highly-prestigious, triennial event where world-class scientists present and discuss the most recent advances in the field of hearing research in animals and humans. Presented papers range from basic to applied research, and are of interest neuroscientists, otolaryngologists, psychologists, and artificial intelligence researchers.

Basic Aspects of Hearing: Physiology and Perception includes the best papers from the 2012 International Symposium on Hearing. Over 50 chapters focus on the relationship between auditory physiology, psychoacoustics, and computational modeling.

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The International Symposium on Hearing is a highly-prestigious, triennial event where world-class scientists present and discuss the most recent advances in the field of hearing research in animals and humans. Presented papers range from basic to applied research, and are of interest neuroscientists, otolaryngologists, psychologists, and artificial intelligence researchers.

Basic Aspects of Hearing: Physiology and Perception includes the best papers from the 2012 International Symposium on Hearing. Over 50 chapters focus on the relationship between auditory physiology, psychoacoustics, and computational modeling.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Mosaic Evolution of the Mammalian Auditory Periphery....Pages 3-9
A Computer Model of the Auditory Periphery and Its Application to the Study of Hearing....Pages 11-20
A Probabilistic Model of Absolute Auditory Thresholds and Its Possible Physiological Basis....Pages 21-29
Cochlear Compression: Recent Insights from Behavioural Experiments....Pages 31-38
Improved Psychophysical Methods to Estimate Peripheral Gain and Compression....Pages 39-46
Contralateral Efferent Regulation of Human Cochlear Tuning: Behavioural Observations and Computer Model Simulations....Pages 47-54
Modeling Effects of Precursor Duration on Behavioral Estimates of Cochlear Gain....Pages 55-63
Is Overshoot Caused by an Efferent Reduction in Cochlear Gain?....Pages 65-72
Accurate Estimation of Compression in Simultaneous Masking Enables the Simulation of Hearing Impairment for Normal-Hearing Listeners....Pages 73-80
Modelling the Distortion Produced by Cochlear Compression....Pages 81-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
How Independent Are the Pitch and Interaural-Time-Difference Mechanisms That Rely on Temporal Fine Structure Information?....Pages 91-99
On the Limit of Neural Phase Locking to Fine Structure in Humans....Pages 101-108
Effects of Sensorineural Hearing Loss on Temporal Coding of Harmonic and Inharmonic Tone Complexes in the Auditory Nerve....Pages 109-118
A Glimpsing Account of the Role of Temporal Fine Structure Information in Speech Recognition....Pages 119-126
Assessing the Possible Role of Frequency-Shift Detectors in the Ability to Hear Out Partials in Complex Tones....Pages 127-135
Pitch Perception: Dissociating Frequency from Fundamental-Frequency Discrimination....Pages 137-145
Pitch Perception for Sequences of Impulse Responses Whose Scaling Alternates at Every Cycle....Pages 147-156
Putting the Tritone Paradox into Context: Insights from Neural Population Decoding and Human Psychophysics....Pages 157-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Spectral and Level Effects in Auditory Signal Enhancement....Pages 167-174
Enhancement of Increments in Spectral Amplitude: Further Evidence for a Mechanism Based on Central Adaptation....Pages 175-182
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
The Role of Sensitivity to Transients in the Detection of Appearing and Disappearing Objects in Complex Acoustic Scenes....Pages 183-192
Perceptual Compensation When Isolated Test Words Are Heard in Room Reverberation....Pages 193-201
A New Approach to Sound Source Segregation....Pages 203-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Maps of ITD in the Nucleus Laminaris of the Barn Owl....Pages 215-222
The Influence of the Envelope Waveform on Binaural Tuning of Neurons in the Inferior Colliculus and Its Relation to Binaural Perception....Pages 223-230
No Evidence for ITD-Specific Adaptation in the Frequency Following Response....Pages 231-238
Interaural Time Difference Thresholds as a Function of Frequency....Pages 239-246
Interaural Time Processing When Stimulus Bandwidth Differs at the Two Ears....Pages 247-254
Neural Correlates of the Perception of Sound Source Separation....Pages 255-262
When and How Envelope “Rate-Limitations” Affect Processing of Interaural Temporal Disparities Conveyed by High-Frequency Stimuli....Pages 263-271
The Sound Source Distance Dependence of the Acoustical Cues to Location and Their Encoding by Neurons in the Inferior Colliculus: Implications for the Duplex Theory....Pages 273-282
Cochlear Contributions to the Precedence Effect....Pages 283-291
Off-Frequency BMLD: The Role of Monaural Processing....Pages 293-301
Measuring the Apparent Width of Auditory Sources in Normal and Impaired Hearing....Pages 303-310
Psychophysics of Human Echolocation....Pages 311-319
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Formant-Frequency Variation and Its Effects on Across-Formant Grouping in Speech Perception....Pages 323-331
Do We Need STRFs for Cocktail Parties? On the Relevance of Physiologically Motivated Features for Human Speech Perception Derived from Automatic Speech Recognition....Pages 333-341
Modelling Speech Intelligibility in Adverse Conditions....Pages 343-351
Better Temporal Neural Coding with Cochlear Implants in Awake Animals....Pages 353-361
Relationships Between Auditory Nerve Activity and Temporal Pitch Perception in Cochlear Implant Users....Pages 363-371
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Robust Cortical Encoding of Slow Temporal Modulations of Speech....Pages 373-381
Wideband Monaural Envelope Correlation Perception....Pages 383-390
Detection Thresholds for Amplitude Modulations of Tones in Budgerigar, Rabbit, and Human....Pages 391-398
Phase Discrimination Ability in Mongolian Gerbils Provides Evidence for Possible Processing Mechanism of Mistuning Detection....Pages 399-407
Front Matter....Pages 409-409
Stimulus-Specific Adaptation Beyond Pure Tones....Pages 411-418
Mapping Tonotopy in Human Auditory Cortex....Pages 419-425
Cortical Activity Associated with the Perception of Temporal Asymmetry in Ramped and Damped Noises....Pages 427-433
Cortical Representation of the Combination of Monaural and Binaural Unmasking....Pages 435-442
Processing of Short Auditory Stimuli: The Rapid Audio Sequential Presentation Paradigm (RASP)....Pages 443-451
Integration of Auditory and Tactile Inputs in Musical Meter Perception....Pages 453-461
A Dynamic System for the Analysis of Acoustic Features and Valence of Aversive Sounds in the Human Brain....Pages 463-472
Front Matter....Pages 473-473
Can Comodulation Masking Release Occur When Frequency Changes Could Promote Perceptual Segregation of the On-Frequency and Flanking Bands?....Pages 475-482
Illusory Auditory Continuity Despite Neural Evidence to the Contrary....Pages 483-489
High-Acuity Spatial Stream Segregation....Pages 491-499
How Early Aging and Environment Interact in Everyday Listening: From Brainstem to Behavior Through Modeling....Pages 501-510
Energetic and Informational Masking in a Simulated Restaurant Environment....Pages 511-518
A Computational Approach to the Dynamic Aspects of Primitive Auditory Scene Analysis....Pages 519-526
A Naturalistic Approach to the Cocktail Party Problem....Pages 527-534
Temporal Coherence and the Streaming of Complex Sounds....Pages 535-543
Back Matter....Pages 545-549

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The International Symposium on Hearing is a highly-prestigious, triennial event where world-class scientists present and discuss the most recent advances in the field of hearing research in animals and humans. Presented papers range from basic to applied research, and are of interest neuroscientists, otolaryngologists, psychologists, and artificial intelligence researchers.

Basic Aspects of Hearing: Physiology and Perception includes the best papers from the 2012 International Symposium on Hearing. Over 50 chapters focus on the relationship between auditory physiology, psychoacoustics, and computational modeling.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Mosaic Evolution of the Mammalian Auditory Periphery....Pages 3-9
A Computer Model of the Auditory Periphery and Its Application to the Study of Hearing....Pages 11-20
A Probabilistic Model of Absolute Auditory Thresholds and Its Possible Physiological Basis....Pages 21-29
Cochlear Compression: Recent Insights from Behavioural Experiments....Pages 31-38
Improved Psychophysical Methods to Estimate Peripheral Gain and Compression....Pages 39-46
Contralateral Efferent Regulation of Human Cochlear Tuning: Behavioural Observations and Computer Model Simulations....Pages 47-54
Modeling Effects of Precursor Duration on Behavioral Estimates of Cochlear Gain....Pages 55-63
Is Overshoot Caused by an Efferent Reduction in Cochlear Gain?....Pages 65-72
Accurate Estimation of Compression in Simultaneous Masking Enables the Simulation of Hearing Impairment for Normal-Hearing Listeners....Pages 73-80
Modelling the Distortion Produced by Cochlear Compression....Pages 81-88
Front Matter....Pages 89-89
How Independent Are the Pitch and Interaural-Time-Difference Mechanisms That Rely on Temporal Fine Structure Information?....Pages 91-99
On the Limit of Neural Phase Locking to Fine Structure in Humans....Pages 101-108
Effects of Sensorineural Hearing Loss on Temporal Coding of Harmonic and Inharmonic Tone Complexes in the Auditory Nerve....Pages 109-118
A Glimpsing Account of the Role of Temporal Fine Structure Information in Speech Recognition....Pages 119-126
Assessing the Possible Role of Frequency-Shift Detectors in the Ability to Hear Out Partials in Complex Tones....Pages 127-135
Pitch Perception: Dissociating Frequency from Fundamental-Frequency Discrimination....Pages 137-145
Pitch Perception for Sequences of Impulse Responses Whose Scaling Alternates at Every Cycle....Pages 147-156
Putting the Tritone Paradox into Context: Insights from Neural Population Decoding and Human Psychophysics....Pages 157-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Spectral and Level Effects in Auditory Signal Enhancement....Pages 167-174
Enhancement of Increments in Spectral Amplitude: Further Evidence for a Mechanism Based on Central Adaptation....Pages 175-182
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
The Role of Sensitivity to Transients in the Detection of Appearing and Disappearing Objects in Complex Acoustic Scenes....Pages 183-192
Perceptual Compensation When Isolated Test Words Are Heard in Room Reverberation....Pages 193-201
A New Approach to Sound Source Segregation....Pages 203-211
Front Matter....Pages 213-213
Maps of ITD in the Nucleus Laminaris of the Barn Owl....Pages 215-222
The Influence of the Envelope Waveform on Binaural Tuning of Neurons in the Inferior Colliculus and Its Relation to Binaural Perception....Pages 223-230
No Evidence for ITD-Specific Adaptation in the Frequency Following Response....Pages 231-238
Interaural Time Difference Thresholds as a Function of Frequency....Pages 239-246
Interaural Time Processing When Stimulus Bandwidth Differs at the Two Ears....Pages 247-254
Neural Correlates of the Perception of Sound Source Separation....Pages 255-262
When and How Envelope “Rate-Limitations” Affect Processing of Interaural Temporal Disparities Conveyed by High-Frequency Stimuli....Pages 263-271
The Sound Source Distance Dependence of the Acoustical Cues to Location and Their Encoding by Neurons in the Inferior Colliculus: Implications for the Duplex Theory....Pages 273-282
Cochlear Contributions to the Precedence Effect....Pages 283-291
Off-Frequency BMLD: The Role of Monaural Processing....Pages 293-301
Measuring the Apparent Width of Auditory Sources in Normal and Impaired Hearing....Pages 303-310
Psychophysics of Human Echolocation....Pages 311-319
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Formant-Frequency Variation and Its Effects on Across-Formant Grouping in Speech Perception....Pages 323-331
Do We Need STRFs for Cocktail Parties? On the Relevance of Physiologically Motivated Features for Human Speech Perception Derived from Automatic Speech Recognition....Pages 333-341
Modelling Speech Intelligibility in Adverse Conditions....Pages 343-351
Better Temporal Neural Coding with Cochlear Implants in Awake Animals....Pages 353-361
Relationships Between Auditory Nerve Activity and Temporal Pitch Perception in Cochlear Implant Users....Pages 363-371
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Robust Cortical Encoding of Slow Temporal Modulations of Speech....Pages 373-381
Wideband Monaural Envelope Correlation Perception....Pages 383-390
Detection Thresholds for Amplitude Modulations of Tones in Budgerigar, Rabbit, and Human....Pages 391-398
Phase Discrimination Ability in Mongolian Gerbils Provides Evidence for Possible Processing Mechanism of Mistuning Detection....Pages 399-407
Front Matter....Pages 409-409
Stimulus-Specific Adaptation Beyond Pure Tones....Pages 411-418
Mapping Tonotopy in Human Auditory Cortex....Pages 419-425
Cortical Activity Associated with the Perception of Temporal Asymmetry in Ramped and Damped Noises....Pages 427-433
Cortical Representation of the Combination of Monaural and Binaural Unmasking....Pages 435-442
Processing of Short Auditory Stimuli: The Rapid Audio Sequential Presentation Paradigm (RASP)....Pages 443-451
Integration of Auditory and Tactile Inputs in Musical Meter Perception....Pages 453-461
A Dynamic System for the Analysis of Acoustic Features and Valence of Aversive Sounds in the Human Brain....Pages 463-472
Front Matter....Pages 473-473
Can Comodulation Masking Release Occur When Frequency Changes Could Promote Perceptual Segregation of the On-Frequency and Flanking Bands?....Pages 475-482
Illusory Auditory Continuity Despite Neural Evidence to the Contrary....Pages 483-489
High-Acuity Spatial Stream Segregation....Pages 491-499
How Early Aging and Environment Interact in Everyday Listening: From Brainstem to Behavior Through Modeling....Pages 501-510
Energetic and Informational Masking in a Simulated Restaurant Environment....Pages 511-518
A Computational Approach to the Dynamic Aspects of Primitive Auditory Scene Analysis....Pages 519-526
A Naturalistic Approach to the Cocktail Party Problem....Pages 527-534
Temporal Coherence and the Streaming of Complex Sounds....Pages 535-543
Back Matter....Pages 545-549
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