Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This volume contains the papers presented at the 15th International Symposium on Hearing (ISH), which was held at the Hotel Regio, Santa Marta de Tormes, Salamanca, Spain, between 1st and 5th June 2009. Since its inception in 1969, this Symposium has been a forum of excellence for debating the neurophysiological basis of auditory perception, with computational models as tools to test and unify physiological and perceptual theories. Every paper in this symposium includes two of the following: auditory physiology, psychoph- ics or modeling. The topics range from cochlear physiology to auditory attention and learning. While the symposium is always hosted by European countries, p- ticipants come from all over the world and are among the leaders in their fields. The result is an outstanding symposium, which has been described by some as a "world summit of auditory research. " The current volume has a bottom-up structure from "simpler" physiological to more "complex" perceptual phenomena and follows the order of presentations at the meeting. Parts I to III are dedicated to information processing in the peripheral au- tory system and its implications for auditory masking, spectral processing, and c- ing. Part IV focuses on the physiological bases of pitch and timbre perception. Part V is dedicated to binaural hearing. Parts VI and VII cover recent advances in und- standing speech processing and perception and auditory scene analysis. Part VIII focuses on the neurophysiological bases of novelty detection, attention, and learning.
Synopsis
Part I Peripheral/Cochlear Processing 1. Otoacoustic emissions theories can be tested with behavioral methods. ENRIQUE A. L PEZ-POVEDA, PETER JOHANNESEN 2. Basilar membrane responses to simultaneous presentations of white noise and a single tone. ALBERTO RECIO-SPINOSO, ENRIQUE A. LOPEZ-POVEDA 3. The influence of the helicotrema on low-frequency hearing. TORSTEN MARQUARDT, CHRISTIAN SEJER PEDERSEN 4. Mechanisms of masking by Schroeder-phase complexes. MAGDALENA WOJTCZAK, ANDREW J. OXENHAM 5. The frequency selectivity of gain reduction masking: Analysis using two equally-effective maskers. SKYLER G. JENNINGS, ELIZABETH A. STRICKLAND 6. Investigating cortical descending control of the peripheral auditory system. DARREN EDWARDS, ALAN R. PALMER 7. Exploiting transgenic mice to explore the role of the tectorial membrane in cochlear sensory processing. GUY P. RICHARDSON, VICTORIA LUKASHKINA, ANDREI N. LUKASHKIN, IAN J. RUSSELL 8. Auditory prepulse inhibition of neuronal activity in the rat cochlear root nucleus. RICARDO G MEZ-NIETO, JOS ANCHIETA DE CASTRO E HORTA J NIOR, ORLANDO CASTELLANO, DONAL G. SINEX, DOLORES E. L PEZ Part II Masking 9. FM forward masking: Implications for FM processing. NEAL VIEMEISTER, ANDREW BYRNE, MAGDALENA WOJTCZAK, MARK STELLMACK 10. Electrophysiological correlates of intensity resolution under forward masking. DANIEL OBERFELD 11. Neuronal measures of threshold and magnitude of forward masking in primary auditory cortex. ANA ALVES-PINTO, SYLVIE BAUDOUX, ALAN PALMER, CHRIS J. SUMNER 12. Effect of presence of cue tone on tuning of auditory filter derived from simultaneous masking. SHUNSUKE KIDANI, MASASHI UNOKI Part III Spectral processing and coding 13. Tone in noise detection: Observed discrepancies in spectral integration. NICOLAS LE GOFF, ARMIN KOHLRAUSCHB, JEROEN BREEBAARTC, STEVEN VAN DE PAR 14. Linear and nonlinear coding of sound spectra by discharge rate in neurons comprising the ascending pathway through the lateral superior olive. DANIEL J. TOLLIN, KANTHAIAH KOKA 15. Enhancement in the marmoset inferior colliculus: neural correlates of perceptual "pop out". PAUL NELSON, ERIC YOUNG 16. Auditory temporal integration at threshold: Evidence of a cortical origin. BERND L TKENH NER Part IV Pitch and Timbre 17. Spatiotemporal characteristics of cortical responses to a new dichotic pitch stimulus. CAROLINE WITTON, ARJAN HILLEBRAND, G. BRUCE HENNING 18. A temporal code for Huggins pitch? CHRISTOPHER J. PLACK, SUZANNE FITZPATRICK, ROBERT P. CARLYON, HEDWIG E. GOCKEL 19. Understanding pitch perception as a hierarchical process with top-down modulation. EMILI BALAGUER-BALLESTER, NICHOLAS R. CLARK, MARTIN COATH, KATRIN KRUMBHOLZ, SUSAN DENHAM 20. The Harmonic Organization of Auditory Cortex. XIAOQIN WANG 21. Reviewing the definition of timbre as it pertains to the perception of speech and musical sounds. ROY D. PATTERSON, THOMAS C. WALTERS, JESSICA J. M. MONAGHAN, ETIENNE GAUDRAIN 22. Size Perception for acoustically scaled sounds of naturally pronounced and whispered words. TOSHIO IRINO, YOSHIE AOKI, HIDEKI KAWAHARA, ROY D. PATTERSON Part V Binaural hearing 23. Subcomponent cues in binaural unmasking. JOHN CULLING 24. Interaural correlations between +1 and -1 on a Thurstone scale: psychometric functions and a two-parameter model. HELGE L DDEMANN, HELMUT RIEDEL, ANDRE RUPP 25. Dynamic ITDs, not ILDs, underlie binaural detection of a tone in wideband noise. MARCEL VAN DER HEIJDEN, PHILIP X. JORIS 26. Effect of reverberation on directional sensitivity of auditory neurons: Central and peripheral factors. SASHA DEVORE, ANDREW SCHWARTZ, BERTRAND DELGUTTE 27. New experiments employing raised-sine stimuli suggest an unknown factor affects sensitivity to envelope-based ITDs for stimuli having low depths of modulation. LESLIE R. BERNSTEIN, CONSTANTINE TRAHIOTIS 28. Modeling Physiological and Psychophysical Responses to Precedence Effect Stimuli. JING XIA, ANDREW BRUGHERA, H. STEVEN COLBURN, BARBARA SH