everything.study
9.285

Audition: Neural Mechanisms, Perception and Cognition

6-0-6 units · Graduate

See description under subject HST.723[J] .

Spring 2005 · Neural Coding and Perception of Sound

Topics

  • What was the Stimulus?
  • Masking and Nonlinearity
  • Masking and Nonlinearity (cont.)
  • Fundamentals of Perceptual Audio Encoding
  • Cellular Mechanisms in the Cochlear Nucleus (cont.)
  • Single-unit Typing in the Cochlear Nucleus
  • Binaural Interactions
  • Neuroanatomy Demonstrations
  • Binaural Interactions (cont.)
  • Compartmental Model of Binaural Coincidence Detector Neuron
  • Pitch and Temporal Coding
  • Pitch and Temporal Coding (cont.)
  • Neural Maps and Plasticity
  • Neural Maps and Plasticity (cont.)
  • Scene Analysis

Readings

  • Helmholtz, H. L. F. On the Sensations of Tone . Translated by A. J. Ellis. New York, NY: Dover, 1954. ISBN: 9780486607535.
    Listed reading
  • von Békésy, G. Experiments in Hearing . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1960. ISBN: 9780070043244.
    Listed reading
  • Evans, E. “The cochlear nerve and cochlear nucleus.” In Handbook of Sensory Physiology. Edited by W. D. Keidel. Heidelberg, DE: Springer, 1974, pp. 1-109. ISBN: 9780387066769.
    Listed reading
  • Guinan, J. J., Jr. “Physiology of olivocochlear efferents.” In The Cochlea . Edited by P. Dallos, A. N. Popper, and R. R. Fay. New York, NY: Springer, 1996, pp. 435-502. ISBN: 9780387944494.
    Listed reading
  • Kiang, N. Y. S. “Peripheral neural processing of auditory information.” In Handbook of Physiology - The nervous system III. Section 1: The Nervous System . Vol. III. Sensory Processes. Part 2. Edited by J. M. Brookhart, V. B. Mountcastle, I. Darian-Smith, and S. R. Geiger. Bethesda, MD: American Physiological Society, 1981. ISBN: 9780683011050.
    Listed reading
  • Delgutte, B. “Auditory neural processing of speech.” In The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences . Edited by W. J. Hardcastle, and J. Laver. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999. pp. 507-538. ISBN: 9780631214786.
    Listed reading
  • Pickles, J. O. An Introduction to the Physiology of Hearing . London, UK: Academic Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780125547543.
    Listed reading
  • Berglund, A. M., and D. K. Ryugo. “Hair cell innervation by spiral ganglion neurons in the adult mouse.” J Comp Neurol 255 (1987): 560-570.
    Listed reading
  • Delgutte, B. “Representation of speech-like sounds in the discharge patterns of auditory-nerve fibers.” J Acoust Soc Am 68 (1980): 843-857.
    Listed reading
  • ———. “Two-tone suppression in auditory-nerve fibers: Dependence on suppressor frequency and level.” Hearing Research 49 (1990): 225-246.
    Listed reading
  • Delgutte, B., and N. Y. S. Kiang. “Speech coding in the auditory nerve: IV. Sounds with consonant-like dynamic characteristics.” J Acoust Soc Am 75 (1984): 897-918.
    Listed reading
  • Evans, E. F. “Frequency selectivity at high signal levels of single units in cochlear nerve and cochlear nucleus.” In Psychophysics and Physiology of Hearing . Edited by E. F. Evans, and J. P. Wilson. London, UK: Academic Press, 1977, pp. 185-192. ISBN: 9780122440502.
    Listed reading
  • Hudspeth, A. J., and D. P. Corey. “Sensitivity, polarity, and conductance change in the response of vertebrate hair cells to controlled mechanical stimuli.” Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 74 (1977): 2407-2411.
    Listed reading
  • Javel, E., J. A. McGee, W. Horst, and G. R. Farley. “Temporal mechanisms in auditory stimulus coding.” In Auditory Function: Neurological Bases of Hearing. Edited by G. M. Edelman, W. E. Gall, and W. M. Cowan. New York, NY: Wiley, 1988, pp. 515-558. ISBN: 9780471617464.
    Listed reading
  • Johnson, D. H. “The relationship between spike rate and synchrony in responses of auditory-nerve fibers to single tones.” J Acoust Soc Am 68, no. 4 (1980): 1115-1122.
    Listed reading
  • Listed reading
  • Liberman, M. C. “Auditory-nerve responses from cats raised in a low-noise chamber.” J Acoust Soc Am 63 (1978): 442-455.
    Listed reading
  • ———. “The cochlear frequency map for the cat: Labeling auditory-nerve fibers of known characteristic frequency.” J Acoust Soc Am 72, no. 5 (1982): 1441-1449.
    Listed reading
  • Liberman, M. C., L. W. Dodds, and S. Pierce. “Afferent and efferent innervation of the cat cochlea: quantitative analysis with light and electron microscopy.” J Comp Neurol 301 (1990): 443-460.
    Listed reading
  • Liberman, M. C., and M. J. Mulroy. “Acute and chronic effects of acoustic trauma: Cochlear pathology and auditory nerve pathophysiology.” In New Perspectives on Noise-induced Hearing Loss. Edited by R. P. Hamernik, D. Henderson, and R. Salvi. New York, NY: Raven Press, 1981, pp. 105-135. ISBN: 9780890046012.
    Listed reading
  • Liberman, M. C., and M. E. Oliver. “Morphometry of intracellularly labeled neurons of the auditory nerve: Correlations with functional properties.” J Comp Neurol 223 (1984): 163-176.
    Listed reading
  • Narayan, S. S., A. N. Temchin, A. Recio, and M. A. Ruggero. “Frequency tuning of basilar membrane and auditory nerve fibers in the same cochleae.” Science 282 (1998): 1882-1883.
    Listed reading
  • Palmer, A. R., and I. J. Russell. “Phase-locking in the cochlear nerve of the guinea pig and its relation to the receptor potential of inner hair cells.” Hearing Research 24 (1986): 1-15.
    Listed reading
  • Sachs, M. B., and N. Y. S. Kiang. “Two-tone inhibition in auditory-nerve fibers.” J Acoust Soc Am 43 (1968): 1120-1128.
    Listed reading
  • Sachs, M. B., R. L. Winslow, and B. H. A. Sokolowski. “A computational model for rate-level functions from cat auditory-nerve fibers.” Hearing Research 41 (1989): 61-70.
    Listed reading
  • Sachs, M. B., and E. D. Young. “Encoding of steady-state vowels in the auditory nerve: Representation in terms of discharge rate.” J Acoust Soc Am 66 (1979): 470-479.
    Listed reading
  • Wiederhold, M. L., and N. Y. S. Kiang. “Effects of electric stimulation of the crossed olivocochlear bundle on single auditory-nerve fibers in the cat.” J Acoust Soc Am 48 (1970): 950-965.
    Listed reading
  • Moore, B. C. J. An Introduction to the Psychology of Hearing. 5th ed. London, UK: Academic Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780125056281.
    Recommended
  • Recommended
  • Egan, J. P., and H. W. Hake. “On the masking pattern of a simple auditory stimulus.” J Acoust Soc Am 22 (1950): 622-630.
    Listed reading
  • Evans, E. F. “Latest comparisons between physiological and behavioural frequency selectivity.” In Physiological and Psychophysical Bases of Auditory Function. Edited by J. Breebaart, A. J. M. Houtsma, A. Kohlrausch, V. F. Prijs, and R. Schoonhoven. Maastricht, The Netherlands: Shaker, 2001, pp. 382-387.
    Listed reading
  • Evans, E. F., S. R. Pratt, and N. P. Cooper. “Correspondence between behavioural and physiological frequency selectivity in the guinea pig.” Brit J Audiol 23 (1989): 151-152.
    Listed reading
  • Glasberg, B. R., and B. C. J. Moore. “Derivation of auditory filter shapes from notched-noise data.” Hearing Research 47 (1990): 103-138.
    Listed reading
  • Houtgast, T. “Psychophysical evidence for lateral inhibition in hearing.” J Acoust Soc Am 51 (1972): 1885-1894.
    Listed reading
  • Moore, B. C. J., ed. Frequency Selectivity in Hearing. London, UK; Orlando, FL: Academic Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780125056250
    Listed reading
  • Neff, D. L., and D. M. Green. “Masking produced by spectral uncertainty with multi-component maskers.” Perception and Psychophysics 41 (1987): 409-415.
    Listed reading
  • Oxenham, A. J., and C. J. Plack. “Suppression and the upward spread of masking.” J Acoust Soc Am 104 (1998): 3500-3510.
    Listed reading
  • Shannon, R. V. “Two-tone unmasking and suppression in a forward masking situation.” J Acoust Soc Am 59 (1976): 1460-1470.
    Listed reading
  • Shera, C. A., J. J. Guinan, and A. J. Oxenham. “Revised estimates of human cochlear tuning from otoacoustic and behavioral measurements.” Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 99 (2002): 3318-3323.
    Listed reading
  • Darwin, C. J., and R. P. Carlyon. “Auditory grouping.” In Handbook of Perception and Cognition: Hearing . Edited by Brian Moore. New York, NY: Academic Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780125056267.
    Listed reading
  • Listed reading
  • Darwin, C. J., and V. Ciocca. “Grouping in pitch perception: effects of onset asynchrony and ear of presentation of a mistuned component.” J Acoust Soc Am 91 (1992): 3381-3390.
    Listed reading
  • Darwin, C. J., and R. B. Gardner. “Mistuning a harmonic of a vowel: grouping and phase effects on vowel quality.” J Acoust Soc Am 79 (1986): 838-845.
    Listed reading
  • Fishman, Y. I., et al. “Neural correlates of auditory stream segregation in primary auditory cortex of the awake monkey.” Hearing Research 151 (2001): 167-187.
    Listed reading
  • Cariani, P. A. “Neural timing nets.” Neural Netw 14 (2001): 737-753.
    Listed reading
  • de Cheveigne, A., et al. “Identification of concurrent harmonic and inharmonic vowels: a test of the theory of harmonic cancellation and enhancement.” J Acoust Soc Am 97 (1995): 3736-3748.
    Listed reading
  • Assmann, P. F., and Q. Summerfield. “Modeling the perception of concurrent vowels: vowels with different fundamental frequencies.” J Acoust Soc Am 88 (1990): 680-697.
    Listed reading

Prerequisites & course information

Same subject as HST.723[J] Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Spring) 6-0-6 units

Sources