Hearing — Physiological Bases and Psychophysics

Section I. Inner Ear Mechanisms and Cochlear Emissions.- Review Paper: Hair Cells, Receptors with a Motor Capacity?.- Inner Hair Cell Receptor Potentials Investigated during Transient Asphyxia: a Model for Hair Cell Coupling.- Frequency Tuning and Ionic Conductances in Hair Cells of the Bullfrog's Sacculus.- Synaptic Hyperpolarisation and Loss of Tuning in Turtle Cochlear Hair Cells.- Cochlear Electroanatomy: Influence on Information Processing.- Electrochemical Profile for Potassium Ions across the Hair-Cell Membranes.- Comparison of Basilar Membrane, Hair Cell and Neural Responses.- Thermal Noise and Active Processes in the Inner Ear: Relating Theory to Experiment.- Cochlear Potentials in Homozygous and Heterozygous Bronx Waltzer Mice.- Dual Acoustical Sensitivity in Frogs.- Frequency Coding in the Inner Ear of Anuran Amphibians.- On the Frequency-Distribution of Spontaneous Cochlear Emissions.- A Comparison of Mechanical Nonlinearities in the Cochleae of Man and Gerbil from Ear Canal Measurements.- Psychophysical Aspects of Cochlear Acoustic Emissions ("Kemp-Tones").- "A Family with High Tonal Objective Tinnitus" - an Update.- On Peripheral Processing in Human Hearing.- Section II. Auditory Nerve and Cochlear Nucleus, Central and Centrifugal Auditory Systems.- Intensity Functions and Dynamic Responses from the Cochlea to the Cochlear Nucleus.- Representation of Acoustic Stimuli in the Presence of Background Sounds: Adaptation in the Auditory Nerve and Cochlear Nucleus.- Nonlinear Behavior at Threshold Determined in the Auditory Canal and on the Auditory Nerve.- Peripheral Auditory Adaptation and Forward Masking.- Pitch and Cochlear Nerve Fibre Temporal Discharge Patterns.- Suppression in Neural Response of the Auditory System to Click Pairs and to CosineNoise.- Auditory-Nerve Fibre Correlates of the Critical Bandwidth as Determined by Loudness Estimation.- Dynamic Maintenance and Alterability of Cortical Maps in Adults; some Implications.- Temporal Resolution of Amplitude Modulation and Complex Signals in the Auditory Cortex of the Cat.- The Distribution of the Olivo-Cochlear Bundle and Its Possible Role in Frequency/Intensity Coding.- Section III. Binaural Interaction.- Review Paper: Psychoacoustic Binaural Phenomena.- Recent Developments in Binaural Modeling.- Lateralization of Transient Signals and Types of Delay.- Lateralization of Transients Presented at High Rates: Site of the Saturation Effect.- Dynamic Cues in Binaural Perception.- Cat Superior Olivary Complex (SOC): the Basis of Binaural Information Processing.- Structure and Function of Crossed and Uncrossed Pathways to the Inferior Colliculus in the Rat.- Monaural and Binaural Contributions to an Auditory Space Map in the Guinea-Pig Superior Colliculus.- Binaural Hearing and Neural Interaction.- Section IV. Psychophysics.- Review Paper: Psychoacoustics of Normal and Impaired Listeners.- Loudness Adaptation Induced Interaurally and Monaurally.- Accounting for the Loudness of a Sinusoid in Noise.- The Role of Modulation in Hearing.- On the Perception of Spectral Modulations.- Fluctuation Strength of Modulated Tones and Broadband Noise.- Monaural Phase Effects in Masking with Multicomponent Signals.- Decay of Pulsation Threshold Patterns.- Section V. Pitch Perception.- Mutual Pitch Influence of Components in a Compound Sound.- Monotic and Dichotic Pitch JND's Compared.- Pitch Discrimination and Musical Interval Recognition in Backward Masking.- Threshold Duration for Melodic Pitch.- Pitch of Sinusoids and Complex Tones above 10 kHz.- Neuronal Mechanisms fora Periodicity Analysis in the Time Domain.- Section VI. Speech and Hearing Impairment.- Auditory-Nerve Representation of Voice Pitch.- JNDs for the Spectral Envelope Parameters in Natural Speech.- The Reception Threshold of Interrupted Speech for Hearing-Impaired Listeners.- Impaired Frequency/Time Resolution and its Effect on Speech Intelligibility.- CAP Unmasking, CAP Tuning and CAP Thresholds in Humans.- Some Aspects of Signal Processing in Individuals with Residual High-Frequency Hearing.- The Relationship between Pure-Tone Thresholds and Psychoacoustical Tuning Curves in the Hearing Impaired: Preliminary Findings.- Dissociation between Frequency Resolution and Hearing Threshold.