Part I Peripheral/Cochlear Processing 1. Otoacoustic emissions theories can be tested with behavioral methods. ENRIQUE A. LÓPEZ-POVEDA, PETER JOHANNESEN 2. Basilar membrane responses to simultaneous presentations of white noise and a single tone. ALBERTO RECIO-SPINOSO, ENRIQUE A. LOPEZ-POVEDA 3. The influence of the helicotrema on low-frequency hearing. TORSTEN MARQUARDT, CHRISTIAN SEJER PEDERSEN 4. Mechanisms of masking by Schroeder-phase complexes. MAGDALENA WOJTCZAK, ANDREW J. OXENHAM 5. The frequency selectivity of gain reduction masking: Analysis using two equally-effective maskers. SKYLER G. JENNINGS, ELIZABETH A. STRICKLAND 6. Investigating cortical descending control of the peripheral auditory system. DARREN EDWARDS, ALAN R. PALMER 7. Exploiting transgenic mice to explore the role of the tectorial membrane in cochlear sensory processing. GUY P. RICHARDSON, VICTORIA LUKASHKINA, ANDREI N. LUKASHKIN, IAN J. RUSSELL 8. Auditory prepulse inhibition of neuronal activity in the rat cochlear root nucleus. RICARDO GÓMEZ-NIETO, JOSÉ ANCHIETA DE CASTRO E HORTA JÚNIOR, ORLANDO CASTELLANO, DONAL G. SINEX, DOLORES E. LÓPEZ Part II Masking 9. FM forward masking: Implications for FM processing. NEAL VIEMEISTER, ANDREW BYRNE, MAGDALENA WOJTCZAK, MARK STELLMACK 10. Electrophysiological correlates of intensity resolution under forward masking. DANIEL OBERFELD 11. Neuronal measures of threshold and magnitude of forward masking in primary auditory cortex. ANA ALVES-PINTO, SYLVIE BAUDOUX, ALAN PALMER, CHRIS J. SUMNER 12. Effect of presence of cue tone on tuning of auditory filter derived from simultaneous masking. SHUNSUKE KIDANI, MASASHI UNOKI Part III Spectral processing and coding 13. Tone in noise detection: Observed discrepancies in spectral integration. NICOLAS LE GOFF, ARMIN KOHLRAUSCHB, JEROEN BREEBAARTC, STEVEN VAN DE PAR 14. Linear and nonlinear coding of sound spectra by discharge rate in neurons comprising the ascending pathway through the lateral superior olive. DANIEL J. TOLLIN, KANTHAIAH KOKA 15. Enhancement in the marmoset inferior colliculus: neural correlates of perceptual "pop out". PAUL NELSON, ERIC YOUNG 16. Auditory temporal integration at threshold: Evidence of a cortical origin. BERND LÜTKENHÖNER Part IV Pitch and Timbre 17. Spatiotemporal characteristics of cortical responses to a new dichotic pitch stimulus. CAROLINE WITTON, ARJAN HILLEBRAND, G. BRUCE HENNING 18. A temporal code for Huggins pitch? CHRISTOPHER J. PLACK, SUZANNE FITZPATRICK, ROBERT P. CARLYON, HEDWIG E. GOCKEL 19. Understanding pitch perception as a hierarchical process with top-down modulation. EMILI BALAGUER-BALLESTER, NICHOLAS R. CLARK, MARTIN COATH, KATRIN KRUMBHOLZ, SUSAN DENHAM 20. The Harmonic Organization of Auditory Cortex. XIAOQIN WANG 21. Reviewing the definition of timbre as it pertains to the perception of speech and musical sounds. ROY D. PATTERSON, THOMAS C. WALTERS, JESSICA J. M. MONAGHAN, ETIENNE GAUDRAIN 22. Size Perception for acoustically scaled sounds of naturally pronounced and whispered words. TOSHIO IRINO, YOSHIE AOKI, HIDEKI KAWAHARA, ROY D. PATTERSON Part V Binaural hearing 23. Subcomponent cues in binaural unmasking. JOHN CULLING 24. Interaural correlations between +1 and -1 on a Thurstone scale: psychometric functions and a two-parameter model. HELGE LÜDDEMANN, HELMUT RIEDEL, ANDRE RUPP 25. Dynamic ITDs, not ILDs, underlie binaural detection of a tone in wideband noise. MARCEL VAN DER HEIJDEN, PHILIP X. JORIS 26. Effect of reverberation on directional sensitivity of auditory neurons: Central and peripheral factors. SASHA DEVORE, ANDREW SCHWARTZ, BERTRAND DELGUTTE 27. New experiments employing raised-sine stimuli suggest an unknown factor affects sensitivity to envelope-based ITDs for stimuli having low depths of modulation. LESLIE R. BERNSTEIN, CONSTANTINE TRAHIOTIS 28. Modeling Physiological and Psychophysical Responses to Precedence Effect Stimuli. JING XIA, ANDREW BRUGHERA, H. STEVEN COLBURN, BARBARA SH
About the Author:

Enrique A. Lopez-Poveda, Ph.D. is director of the Auditory Computation and Psychoacoustics Unit of the Neuroscience Institute of Castilla y León (University of Salamanca, Spain). His research focuses on understanding and modeling human cochlear nonlinear signal processing and the role of the peripheral auditory system in normal and impaired auditory perception. He has authored over 45 scientific papers and book chapters and is co-editor of the book Computational Models of the Auditory System (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research). He has been principal investigator, participant and consultant on numerous research projects. He is member of the Acoustical Society of America and of the Association of Research in Otolaryngololgy.

Alan R. Palmer, Ph.D. is Deputy Director of the MRC Institute of Hearing Research and holds a Special Professorship in neuroscience at the University of Nottingham UK. He received his first degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Birmingham UK and his PhD in Communication and Neuroscience from the University of Keele UK. After postdoctoral research at Keele, he established his own laboratory at the National Institute for Medical Research in London. This was followed by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the University of Sussex before taking a program leader position at the Medical Research Council Institute for Hearing Research in 1986. He heads a research team that uses neurophysiological, computational and neuroanatomical techniques to study the way the brain processes sound.

Ray Meddis, Ph.D. is director of the Hearing Research Laboratory at the University of Essex, England. His research has concentrated on the development of computer models of the physiology of the auditory periphery and how these can be incorporated into models of psychophysical phenomena such as pitch and auditory scene analysis. He has published extensively in this area. He is co-editor of the book Computational Models of the Auditory System (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research). His current research concerns the application of computer models to an understanding of hearing impairment. He is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a member of the Association of Research in Otolaryngololgy.