HEARING -- Physiological Bases and Psychophysics : Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Hearing, Bad Nauheim, Germany, April 5-9, 1983

The present book contains the original papers and essential points of the general discussion of a meeting organized in a series of tri-annual conferences, initiated by Dr. R. Plomp with the meeting in Driebergen, The Netherlands, 1969. These symposia have tried to bring to\ether people from extreme fields in auditory research and to amalgamate their recent findings. This series of conferences has proven to be most successful and has attracted much attention by scientists in auditory research. The organizers have tried to maintain the character of the meeting with em­ phasis on discussion by precirculation of the full text of the papers and by re­ stricting the number of active contributions. Unfortunately, this forced us to reject a great number of submitted papers - in selection we attempted to compose a fair survey of certain fields of auditory research but leave others untreated. Because of the same reason the number of invited review papers had to be limited to three. The reader may decide whether or not this selection was adequate. We thank all those participants who attended the meeting inspite of the rejection of their paper. The authors have been responsible for text and typing of their manuscripts. The editors have not attempted to standardize the spelling. Front Matter....Pages I-XVI Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Review Paper: Hair Cells, Receptors with a Motor Capacity?....Pages 2-9 Inner Hair Cell Receptor Potentials Investigated During Transient Asphyxia: A Model for Hair Cell Coupling....Pages 10-16 Frequency Tuning and Ionic Conductances in Hair Cells of the Bullfrog’s Sacculus....Pages 17-24 Synaptic Hyperpolarisation and Loss of Tuning in Turtle Cochlear Hair Cells....Pages 25-31 Cochlear Electroanatomy: Influence on Information Processing....Pages 32-38 Electrochemical Profile for Potassium Ions Across the Hair-Cell Membranes....Pages 39-45 Comparison of Basilar Membrane, Hair Cell and Neural Responses....Pages 46-50 Thermal Noise and Active Processes in the Inner Ear: Relating Theory to Experiment....Pages 51-57 Cochlear Potentials in Homozygous and Heterozygous Bronx Waltzer Mice....Pages 58-60 Dual Acoustical Sensitivity in Frogs....Pages 61-69 Frequency Coding in the Inner Ear of Anuran Amphibians....Pages 70-76 On the Frequency-Distribution of Spontaneous Cochlear Emissions....Pages 77-81 A Comparison of Mechanical Nonlinearities in the Cochleae of Man and Gerbil from Ear Canal Measurements....Pages 82-88 Psychophysical Aspects of Cochlear Acoustic Emissions (“Kemp-Tones”)....Pages 89-96 “A Family with High-Tonal Objective Tinnitus” - An Update....Pages 97-103 On Peripheral Processing in Human Hearing....Pages 104-110 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 Intensity Functions and Dynamic Responses from the Cochlea to the Cochlear Nucleus....Pages 112-118 Representation of Acoustic Stimuli in the Presence of Background Sounds: Adaptation in the Auditory Nerve and Cochlear Nucleus....Pages 119-127 Nonlinear Behavior at Threshold Determined in the Auditory Canal and on the Auditory Nerve....Pages 128-134 Peripheral Auditory Adaptation and Forward Masking....Pages 135-139 Front Matter....Pages 111-111 Pitch and Cochlear Nerve Fibre Temporal Discharge Patterns....Pages 140-146 Suppression in Neural Response of the Auditory System to Click Pairs and to Cosine Noise....Pages 147-154 Auditory-Nerve Fibre Correlates of the Critical Bandwidth as Determined by Loudness Estimation....Pages 155-161 Dynamic Maintenance and Alterability of Cortical Maps in Adults; Some Implications....Pages 162-168 Temporal Resolution of Amplitude Modulation and Complex Signals in the Auditory Cortex of the Cat....Pages 169-175 The Distribution of the Olivo-Cochlear Bundle and its Possible Role in Frequency/Intensity Coding....Pages 176-180 Front Matter....Pages 181-181 Review Paper: Psychoacoustic Binaural Phenomena....Pages 182-189 Recent Developments in Binaural Modeling....Pages 190-195 Lateralization of Transient Signals and Types of Delay....Pages 196-201 Lateralization of Transients Presented at High Rates: Site of the Saturation Effect....Pages 202-208 Dynamic Cues in Binaural Perception....Pages 209-215 Cat Superior Olivary Complex (SOC): The Basis of Binaural Information Processing....Pages 216-223 Structure and Function of Crossed and Uncrossed Pathways to the Inferior Colliculus in the Rat....Pages 224-229 Monaural and Binaural Contributions to an Auditory Space Map in the Guinea-Pig Superior Colliculus....Pages 230-236 Binaural Hearing and Neural Interaction....Pages 237-243 Front Matter....Pages 245-245 Review Paper: Psychoacoustics of Normal and Impaired Listeners....Pages 246-256 Loudness Adaptation Induced Interaurally and Monaurally....Pages 257-263 Accounting for the Loudness of a Sinusoid in Noise....Pages 264-269 The Role of Modulation in Hearing....Pages 270-276 On the Perception of Spectral Modulations....Pages 277-281 Front Matter....Pages 245-245 Fluctuation Strength of Modulated Tones and Broadband Noise....Pages 282-288 Monaural Phase Effects in Masking with Multicomponent Signals....Pages 289-295 Decay of Pulsation Threshold Patterns....Pages 296-302 Front Matter....Pages 303-303 Mutual Pitch Influence of Components in a Compound Sound....Pages 304-308 Monotic and Dichotic Pitch JND’s Compared....Pages 309-314 Pitch Discrimination and Musical Interval Recognition in Backward Masking....Pages 315-320 Threshold Duration for Melodic Pitch....Pages 321-326 Pitch of Sinusoids and Complex Tones Above 10 kHz....Pages 327-333 Neuronal Mechanisms for a Periodicity Analysis in the Time Domain....Pages 334-341 Front Matter....Pages 343-343 Auditory-Nerve Representation of Voice Pitch....Pages 344-351 JNDs for the Spectral Envelope Parameters in Natural Speech....Pages 352-358 The Reception Threshold of Interrupted Speech for Hearing-Impaired Listeners....Pages 359-363 Impaired Frequency/Time Resolution and its Effect on Speech Intelligibility....Pages 364-371 Cap Unmasking, Cap Tuning and Cap Thresholds in Humans....Pages 372-378 Some Aspects of Signal Processing in Individuals with Residual High-Frequency Hearing....Pages 379-384 The Relationship Between Pure-Tone Thresholds and Psychoacoustical Tuning Curves in the Hearing Impaired: Preliminary Findings....Pages 385-392 Dissociation Between Frequency Resolution and Hearing Threshold....Pages 393-399