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.
Author(s): Josef Syka, Michael M. Merzenich
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2005
Language: English
Commentary: Conference publication
Pages: 404
City: New York, NY
Contents......Page 7
Interaural Time Difference Processing......Page 11
Interplay of Excitation and Inhibition in Auditory Brainstem Processing at Endbulbs of Held of the MNTB and AVCN......Page 24
Topographic Representation of Periodicity Information: The 2nd Neural Axis of the Auditory System......Page 46
Complex Frequency Tuning of Neurons in the Mouse Inferior Colliculus......Page 61
Role of KCC2 in Auditory Processing of the Brainstem......Page 66
Spatial and Functional Properties of Neuronal Responses to Simulated Sound Source Motion in the Inferior Colliculus of the Cat......Page 71
Temporal and Rate Representations of Time-Varying Signals in Auditory Cortex......Page 76
Communication-Call Representation in the Mouse Auditory Cortex: Perception vs. Recognition......Page 89
Molecular Mechanisms in Deafness Related Auditory Brain Stem Plasticity......Page 101
Challenges to a Neuroanatomical Theory of Forebrain Auditory Plasticity......Page 112
Rewiring Cortex: Functional Plasticity of the Auditory Cortex During Development......Page 129
Plasticity of Tonotopic and Correlation Maps in Cat Primary Auditory Cortex......Page 140
Small Cochlear Damage Causes Unmasking and Plasticity in Supra-Threshold Cortical Responses......Page 153
Changes in Auditory Function Following Auditory Cortex Inactivation......Page 168
Plastic Changes in the Primary Auditory Cortex in Cochlear Implanted Deaf Cats......Page 180
Input Desynchronization and Impaired Columnar Activation in Deprived Auditory Cortex Revealed by Independent Component Analysis......Page 190
Temporal Firing Activities of Auditory Cortical Neurons and Modification of Their Activities by Laser Irradiation......Page 195
Neurodynamics in Auditory Cortex During Category Learning......Page 201
Comparison of Two Rat Models of Aging......Page 214
Age-Related Changes in Cochlear Function in Young and Adult Fischer 344 Rats......Page 223
Psychoacoustics and Working Memory in Dyslexia......Page 229
Frequency and Intensity Discrimination in Dyslexia......Page 239
Speech Perception in Noise Among Learning Disabled Teenagers......Page 246
How Can the Neural Encoding and Perception of Speech be Improved?......Page 253
Hemispheric Processing of Prosody......Page 264
Auditory Cortex Processing Streams: Where Are They and What Do They Do?......Page 270
Congenital Amusia: Impaired Musical Pitch But Intact Musical Time......Page 284
Time-Courses of 40 Hz Steady-State Responses Reveal Temporal Processing in the Central Auditory System......Page 290
Auditory Cortex Role in Human Directional Hearing......Page 296
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......Page 303
Perception of the Direction of Frequency Sweeps in Moving Ripple Noise Stimuli......Page 308
Rippled-Spectrum Resolution as a Measure of Frequency Resolving Power of Hearing......Page 314
Low Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in Brain Hyperexcitability Disorders Like Tinnitus and Auditory Hallucinations......Page 320
Effects of Long Term Unilateral Hearing Loss on the Lateralization of fMRI Measured Activation in Human Auditory Cortex......Page 326
Arguments in Favor of Auditory Reorganization in Human Subjects with Cochlear Damage......Page 338
Central Auditory Processing and Language Learning Impairments: Implications for Neuroplasticity Research......Page 345
Neuroplastic Adaptations of the Auditory System in Musicians and Nonmusicians......Page 376
Functional and Structural Characteristics of Auditory Cortex in the Blind......Page 384
Participants......Page 390
C......Page 401
I......Page 402
S......Page 403
W......Page 404
