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Informationen zum Autor Gerald Langner received a diploma in physics from the Technical University of Munich in 1971. He then worked at the Max-Plank-Institute in Göttingen and at the TU Darmstadt where he studied hearing in birds and electroreception in fish. In 1985, during a research stay in Canberra, Australia, he discovered – together with Henning Scheich – the electric sense in platypus. From 1988 to 2008 he was Professor of Neurobiology in Darmstadt with his research focus on spatial and temporal aspects of processing in the auditory system. Klappentext An introduction to the neuronal mechanisms of pitch and harmony, and the role of neuronal oscillations for brain and mind. Zusammenfassung Introducing the neuronal mechanisms of pitch and harmony! and the role of neuronal oscillations for brain and mind! this unique title demonstrates that musical pitch is a temporal and not a spectral phenomenon! and musical harmony is not a cultural heritage but a mathematical necessity based on neurobiological mechanisms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Historical aspects of harmony; 2. Sound and periodicity; 3. The discovery of the missing fundamental; 4. The pitch puzzle; 5. The auditory time constant; 6. Pathways of hearing; 7. Periodicity coding in the brainstem; 8. Periodicity coding in the midbrain; 9. Theories of periodicity coding; 10. Periodotopy; 11. The neural basis of harmony; 12. The oscillating brain; References; Subject index.
