By B. Kollmeier, G. Klump, V. Hohmann, U. Langemann, M. Mauermann, S. Uppenkamp, J. Verhey

Hearing - From Sensory Processing to conception offers the papers of the newest foreign Symposium on listening to, a gathering held each 3 years concentrating on psychoacoustics and the learn of the physiological mechanisms underlying auditory belief. The complaints offer an updated document at the prestige of the sector of analysis into listening to and auditory functions.

The fifty nine chapters deal with subject matters resembling: the physiological illustration of temporal and spectral stimulus houses as a foundation for the notion of modulation styles, pitch and sign depth; spatial listening to and the physiological mechanisms of binaural processing in mammals; integration of different stimulus beneficial properties into auditory scene research; physiological mechanisms on the topic of the formation of auditory items; speech notion; and obstacles of auditory conception as a result of listening to disorders.

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The surgical preparation and stimulus presentation took place in a sound attenuating chamber (IAC). All animals were tracheotomised and core temperature was maintained at 38 ºC with a thermostatically controlled heating blanket. The electrocardiogram and respiration rate were monitored throughout and on signs of suppressed respiration the animal was artificially ventilated. Recordings were made using tungsten-in-glass microelectrodes (Merrill and Ainsworth 1972). Broadband noise was used as a search stimulus.

1998; O’Connor et al. 2005). The characteristics of a neuron’s optimal stimulus provide a functional definition of the signal processing being done by the neuron. The optimum can be the stimulus giving the highest discharge rate or it can be the stimulus about which the neuron provides the most information in some sense. In this chapter the optimum is the maximum discharge rate. The problem of finding the optimum is not well defined and must usually be limited to some class of stimuli. Here, the stimulus class is random spectral shape stimuli (RSS; Yu and Young 2000; Young and Calhoun 2005) and the optimum spectral shape is sought.

The change of the ISI-distribution can be visualised as a journey through parameter space. The advantage of using the extreme value distribution is that the outcome is determined by the statistical laws of big numbers independent of the actual distributions and properties of the underlying processes. It is nevertheless still possible to infer certain neuronal characteristics from the results. For instance the shape ζ is mainly constant for processes like amplitude changes and adaptation (data not shown).

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