Auditory spectral processing

Author(s)

• Malmierca, Manuel S.
• Irvine, Dexter R.

Bibliographic Information

Auditory spectral processing

edited by Manuel S. Malmierca, Dexter R.F. Irvine

（International review of neurobiology, v. 70）

Elsevier Academic Press, 2005

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

All natural auditory signals, including human speech and animal communication signals, are spectrally and temporally complex, that is, they contain multiple frequencies and their frequency composition, or spectrum, varies over time. The ability of hearers to identify and localize these signals depends on analysis of their spectral composition. For the overwhelming majority of human listeners spoken language is the major means of social communication, and this communication therefore depends on spectral analysis. Spectral analysis begins in the cochlea, but is then elaborated at various stages along the auditory pathways in the brain that lead from the cochlea to the cerebral cortex. The broad purpose of Auditory Spectral Processing is to provide a comprehensive account of the way in which spectral information is processed in the brain and the way in which this information is used by listeners to identify and localize sounds.

Table of Contents

Auditory spectral processing: An overview Spectral processing by the peripheral auditory system: Facts and models Basic psychophysics of human spectral processing Across-channel spectral processing Speech and music have different requirements for spectral resolution Nonlinearities and the representation of auditory spectra Spectral processing in the inferior colliculus Neural mechanisms for spectral analysis in the auditory midbrain, thalamus, and cortex Spectral processing in the auditory cortex Dynamic spectral processing Representations of spectral coding in the human brain Spectral processing and sound source determination Spectral information in sound localization Plasticity of spectral processing Spectral processing in cochlear implants

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Details

• NCID: BA75313395
• ISBN:
  • 0123668719
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Amsterdam
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 546 p., [11] p. of col. plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA03981455