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This volume summarizes the state of development of auditory system neuroscience. This field is in an era of remarkable progress, particularly in the field of plasticity of the auditory system. New advances in understanding auditory system plasticity, based substantially on a large and growing body of results from animal experiments, are related to innumerable new insights into the physiology and pathology of speech and music perception and production generated by behavioral studies, and from the application of modern brain imaging techniques. We are living in an especially exciting period of research, marked by an almost astounding rate of advance in the development of our understanding of the hearing brain. The extraordinary series of reports published in this book document this rapid, further advance.
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Contents
PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE AUDITORY PROCESSING
Interaural Time Difference Processing
Alan R. Palmer, and Benedikt Grothe
Interplay of Excitation and Inhibition in Auditory Brainstem Processing at Endbulbs of Held of the MNTB and AVCN
Susanne Dehmel, Cornelia Kopp-Scheinpflug, and Rudolf Rübsamen
Topographic Representation of Periodicity Information: The 2nd Neural Axis of the Auditory System
Gerald Langner
Complex Frequency Tuning of Neurons in the Mouse Inferior Colliculus
Christine V. Portfors
Role of KCC2 in Auditory Processing of the Brainstem
Motoi Kudo, Takaaki Nakamura, and Kiyoshi Kurokawa
Spatial and Functional Properties of Neuronal Responses to Simulated Sound Source Motion in the Inferior Colliculus of the Cat
Elena A. Radionova
Temporal and Rate Representations of Time-Varying Signals in Auditory Cortex
Xiaoqin Wang, Thomas Lu, and Li Liang
Communication-Call Representation in the Mouse Auditory Cortex: Perception vs. Recognition
Günter Ehret, and Diana B. Geissler
PLASTICITY OF THE AUDITORY SYSTEM IN EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS
Molecular Mechanisms in Deafness Related Auditory Brain Stem Plasticity
Richard A. Altschuler, Avril Genene Holt, Mikiya Asako, Catherine A. Lomax, Margaret I. Lomax, and Jose Juiz
Challenges to a Neuroanatomical Theory of Forebrain Auditory Plasticity
Jeffery A. Winer, Charles C. Lee, Kazuo Imaizumi, and Christoph E. Schreiner
Rewiring Cortex: Functional Plasticity of the Auditory Cortex During Development
Jessica R. Newton, and Mriganka Sur
Plasticity of Tonotopic and Correlation Maps in Cat Primary Auditory Cortex
Jos J. Eggermont
Small Cochlear Damage Causes Unmasking and Plasticity in Supra-Threshold Cortical Responses
Ramish Rajan
Changes in Auditory Function Following Auditory Cortex Inactivation
Josef Syka, Jirí Popelár, Natalia Rybalko, Fidel C. Nwabueze-Ogbo, Jana Mazelová, and Daniel uta
Plastic Changes in the Primary Auditory Cortex in Cochlear Implanted Deaf Cats
Rainer Klinke, Andrej Kral, Silvia Heid, and Rainer Hartmann
Input Desynchronization and Impaired Columnar Activation in Deprived Auditory Cortex Revealed by Independent Component Analysis
Peter Hubka, Andrej Kral, and Rainer Klinke
Temporal Firing Activities of Auditory Cortical Neurons and Modification of Their Activities by Laser Irradiation
Hiroshi Riquimaroux, and Yosky Kataoka
Neurodynamics in Auditory Cortex During Category Learning
Frank W. Ohl, Wolfram Wetzel, Matthias Deliano, Henning Scheich, and Walter J. Freeman
Comparison of Two Rat Models of Aging
Jeremy G. Turner, and Donald M. Caspary
Age-Related Changes in Cochlear Function in Young and Adult Fischer 344 Rats
Jirí Popelár, Daniel Groh, and Josef Syka
PSYCHOACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND MUSIC PERCEPTION
Psychoacoustics and Working Memory in Dyslexia
Karen Banai, and Merav Ahissar
Frequency and Intensity Discrimination in Dyslexia
Gal Ben-Yehudah, Karen Banai, and Merav Ahissar
Speech Perception in Noise Among Learning Disabled Teenagers
Hanna Putter-Katz, Karen Banai, and Merav Ahissar
How Can the Neural Encoding and Perception of Speech be Improved?
Trent Nicol, and Nina Kraus
Hemispheric Processing of Prosody
Venu Balasubramanian, and Ludo Max
Auditory Cortex Processing Streams: Where Are They and What Do They Do?
Robert J. Zatorre, and Pascal Belin
Congenital Amusia: Impaired Musical Pitch But Intact Musical Time
Krista L. Hyde, and Isabelle Peretz
Time-Courses of 40 Hz Steady-State Responses Reveal Temporal Processing in the Central Auditory System
Bernhard Ross, and Christo Pantev
Auditory Cortex Role in Human Directional Hearing
Manon Grube, D. Yves Von Cramon, and Rudolf Rübsamen
True Auditory Lateralization Mismatch Responses Can Be Obtained by Changing the Binaural Cues Rather than by Switching a Monaurally Presented Sound from One Ear to the Other
Pekcan Ungan, and Suha Yagcioglu
Perception of the Direction of Frequency Sweeps in Moving Ripple Noise Stimuli
Susan L. Denham
Zusammenfassung
The symposium that has provided the basis for this book, "Plasticity of the Central Auditory System and Processing of Complex Acoustic Signals" was held in Prague on July 7-10, 2003. This is the fourth in a series of seminal meetings summarizing the state of development of auditory system neuroscience that has been organized in that great world city. Books that have resulted from these meetings represent important benchmarks for auditory neuroscience over the past 25 years. A 1980 meeting, "Neuronal Mechanisms of Hearing" hosted the most distinguished hearing researchers focusing on underlying brain processes from this era. It resulted in a highly influential and widely subscribed and cited proceedings co-edited by professor Lindsay Aitkin. The subject of the 1987 meeting was the "Auditory Pathway - Structure and Function". It again resulted in another important update of hearing science research in a widely referenced book - edited by the late Bruce Masterton. While the original plan was to hold a meeting summarizing the state of auditory system neuroscience every 7 years, historical events connected with the disintegration of the Soviet Empire and return of freedom to Czechoslovakia resulted in an unavoidable delay of what was planned to be a 1994 meeting. It wasn't until 1996 that we were able to meet for the third time in Prague, at that time to review "Acoustical Signal Processing in the Central Auditory System".
