Main description:

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.

Contents:

Cochlea/Peripheral Processing.- Influence of Neural Synchrony on the Compound Action Potential, Masking, and the Discrimination of Harmonic Complexes in Several Avian and Mammalian Species.- A Nonlinear Auditory Filterbank Controlled by Sub-band Instantaneous Frequency Estimates.- Estimates of Tuning of Auditory Filter Using Simultaneous and Forward Notched-noise Masking.- A Model of Ventral Cochlear Nucleus Units Based on First Order Intervals.- The Effect of Reverberation on the Temporal Representation of the F0 of Frequency Swept Harmonic Complexes in the Ventral Cochlear Nucleus.- Spectral Edges as Optimal Stimuli for the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus.- Psychophysical and Physiological Assessment of the Representation of High-frequency Spectral Notches in the Auditory Nerve.- Pitch.- Spatio-Temporal Representation of the Pitch of Complex Tones in the Auditory Nerve.- Virtual Pitch in a Computational Physiological Model.- Searching for a Pitch Centre in Human Auditory Cortex.- Imaging Temporal Pitch Processing in the Auditory Pathway.- Modulation.- Spatiotemporal Encoding of Vowels in Noise Studied with the Responses of Individual Auditory-Nerve Fibers.- Role of Peripheral Nonlinearities in Comodulation Masking Release.- Neuromagnetic Representation of Comodulation Masking Release in the Human Auditory Cortex.- Psychophysically Driven Studies of Responses to Amplitude Modulation in the Inferior Colliculus: Comparing Single-Unit Physiology to Behavioral Performance.- Source Segregation Based on Temporal Envelope Structure and Binaural Cues.- Simulation of Oscillating Neurons in the Cochlear Nucleus: A Possible Role for Neural Nets, Onset Cells, and Synaptic Delays.- Forward Masking: Temporal Integration or Adaptation?.- The Time Course of Listening Bands.- Animal Communication.- Frogs Communicate with Ultrasound in Noisy Environments.- The Olivocochlear System Takes Part in Audio-Vocal Interaction.- Neural Representation of Frequency Resolution in the Mouse Auditory Midbrain.- Behavioral and Neural Identification of Birdsong under Several Masking Conditions.- Intensity Representation.- Near-Threshold Auditory Evoked Fields and Potentials are In Line with the Weber-Fechner Law.- Brain Activation in Relation to Sound Intensity and Loudness.- Duration Dependency of Spectral Loudness Summation, Measured with Three Different Experimental Procedures.- Scene Analysis.- The Correlative Brain: A Stream Segregation Model.- Primary Auditory Cortical Responses while Attending to Different Streams.- Hearing Out Repeating Elements in Randomly Varying Multitone Sequences: A Case of Streaming?.- The Dynamics of Auditory Streaming: Psychophysics, Neuroimaging, and Modeling.- Auditory Stream Segregation Based on Speaker Size, and Identification of Size-Modulated Vowel Sequences.- Auditory Scene Analysis: A Prerequisite for Loudness Perception.- Modulation Detection Interference as Informational Masking.- A Paradoxical Aspect of Auditory Change Detection.- Human Auditory Cortical Processing of Transitions Between 'Order' and 'Disorder'.- Wideband Inhibition Modulates the Effect of Onset Asynchrony as a Grouping Cue.- Discriminability of Statistically Independent Gaussian Noise Tokens and Random Tone-Burst Complexes.- The Role of Rehearsal and Lateralization in Pitch Memory.- Binaural Hearing.- Interaural Correlation and Loudness.- Interaural Phase and Level Fluctuations as the Basis of Interaural Incoherence Detection.- Logarithmic Scaling of Interaural Cross Correlation: A Model Based on Evidence from Psychophysics and EEG.- A Physiologically-Based Population Rate Code for Interaural Time Differences (ITDs) Predicts Bandwidth-Dependent Lateralization.- A ?-Limit for Coding ITDs: Neural Responses and the Binaural Display.- A ?-Limit for Coding ITDs: Implications for Binaural Models.- Strategies for Encoding ITD in the Chicken Nucleus Laminaris.- Interaural Level Difference Discrimination Thresholds and Virtual Acoustic Space Minimum Audible Angles for Single Neurons in the Lateral Superior Olive.- Responses in Inferior Colliculus to Dichotic Harmonic Stimuli: The Binaural Integration of Pitch Cues.- Level Dependent Shifts in Auditory Nerve Phase Locking Underlie Changes in Interaural Time Sensitivity with Interaural Level Differences in the Inferior Colliculus.- Remote Masking and the Binaural Masking-Level Difference.- Perceptual and Physiological Characteristics of Binaural Sluggishness.- Precedence-Effect with Cochlear Implant Simulation.- Enhanced Processing of Interaural Temporal Disparities at High-Frequencies: Beyond Transposed Stimuli.- Models of Neural Responses to Bilateral Electrical Stimulation.- Neural and Behavioral Sensitivities to Azimuth Degrade with Distance in Reverberant Environments.- Speech and Learning.- Spectro-temporal Processing of Speech - An Information-Theoretic Framework.- Articulation Index and Shannon Mutual Information.- Perceptual Compensation for Reverberation: Effects of 'Noise-Like' and 'Tonal' Contexts.- Towards Predicting Consonant Confusions of Degraded Speech.- The Influence of Masker Type on the Binaural Intelligibility Level Difference.- Erratum.