Plasticity and Signal Representation in the Auditory System (eBook)

Contents PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE AUDITORY PROCESSING Interaural Time Difference Processing Alan R. Palmer, and Benedikt Grothe Interplay of Excitation and Inhibition in Auditory Brainstem Processing at Endbulbs of Held of the MNTB and AVCN Susanne Dehmel, Cornelia Kopp-Scheinpflug, and Rudolf Rübsamen Topographic Representation of Periodicity Information: The 2nd Neural Axis of the Auditory System Gerald Langner Complex Frequency Tuning of Neurons in the Mouse Inferior Colliculus Christine V. Portfors Role of KCC2 in Auditory Processing of the Brainstem Motoi Kudo, Takaaki Nakamura, and Kiyoshi Kurokawa Spatial and Functional Properties of Neuronal Responses to Simulated Sound Source Motion in the Inferior Colliculus of the Cat Elena A. Radionova Temporal and Rate Representations of Time-Varying Signals in Auditory Cortex Xiaoqin Wang, Thomas Lu, and Li Liang Communication-Call Representation in the Mouse Auditory Cortex: Perception vs. Recognition Günter Ehret, and Diana B. Geissler PLASTICITY OF THE AUDITORY SYSTEM IN EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS Molecular Mechanisms in Deafness Related Auditory Brain Stem Plasticity Richard A. Altschuler, Avril Genene Holt, Mikiya Asako, Catherine A. Lomax, Margaret I. Lomax, and Jose Juiz Challenges to a Neuroanatomical Theory of Forebrain Auditory Plasticity Jeffery A. Winer, Charles C. Lee, Kazuo Imaizumi, and Christoph E. Schreiner Rewiring Cortex: Functional Plasticity of the Auditory Cortex During Development Jessica R. Newton, and Mriganka Sur Plasticity of Tonotopic and Correlation Maps in Cat Primary Auditory Cortex Jos J. Eggermont Small Cochlear Damage CausesUnmasking and Plasticity in Supra-Threshold Cortical Responses Ramish Rajan Changes in Auditory Function Following Auditory Cortex Inactivation Josef Syka, Jirí Popelár, Natalia Rybalko, Fidel C. Nwabueze-Ogbo, Jana Mazelová, and Daniel Šuta Plastic Changes in the Primary Auditory Cortex in Cochlear Implanted Deaf Cats Rainer Klinke, Andrej Kral, Silvia Heid, and Rainer Hartmann Input Desynchronization and Impaired Columnar Activation in Deprived Auditory Cortex Revealed by Independent Component Analysis Peter Hubka, Andrej Kral, and Rainer Klinke Temporal Firing Activities of Auditory Cortical Neurons and Modification of Their Activities by Laser Irradiation Hiroshi Riquimaroux, and Yosky Kataoka Neurodynamics in Auditory Cortex During Category Learning Frank W. Ohl, Wolfram Wetzel, Matthias Deliano, Henning Scheich, and Walter J. Freeman Comparison of Two Rat Models of Aging Jeremy G. Turner, and Donald M. Caspary Age-Related Changes in Cochlear Function in Young and Adult Fischer 344 Rats Jirí Popelár, Daniel Groh, and Josef Syka PSYCHOACOUSTICS, SPEECH AND MUSIC PERCEPTION Psychoacoustics and Working Memory in Dyslexia Karen Banai, and Merav Ahissar Frequency and Intensity Discrimination in Dyslexia Gal Ben-Yehudah, Karen Banai, and Merav Ahissar Speech Perception in Noise Among Learning Disabled Teenagers Hanna Putter-Katz, Karen Banai, and Merav Ahissar How Can the Neural Encoding and Perception of Speech be Improved? Trent Nicol, and Nina Kraus Hemispheric Processing of Prosody Venu Balasubramanian, and Ludo Max Auditory Cortex Processing Streams: Where Are They and What Do They Do? Robert J. Zatorre, and