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The Auditory System and Human Sound-Localization Behavior

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John van Opstal

The Auditory System and Human Sound-Localization Behavior

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    Chapter 1 - A Brief Introduction to the Topic

    Pages 1-22

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    Chapter 2 - The Nature of Sound

    Pages 23-50

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    Chapter 3 - Linear Systems

    Pages 51-86

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    Chapter 4 - Nonlinear Systems

    Pages 87-112

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    Chapter 5 - The Cochlea

    Pages 113-146

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    Chapter 6 - The Auditory Nerve

    Pages 147-169

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    Chapter 7 - Acoustic Localization Cues

    Pages 171-208

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    Chapter 8 - Assessing Auditory Spatial Performance

    Pages 209-244

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    Chapter 9 - The Gaze-Orienting System

    Pages 245-272

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    Chapter 10 - The Midbrain Colliculus

    Pages 273-304

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    Chapter 11 - Coordinate Transformations

    Pages 305-332

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    Chapter 12 - Sound Localization Plasticity

    Pages 333-360

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    Chapter 13 - Multisensory Integration

    Pages 361-392

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    Chapter 14 - Impaired Hearing and Sound Localization

    Pages 393-412

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    Subject Index

    Pages 413-423

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The Auditory System and Human Sound-Localization Behavior provides a comprehensive account of the full action-perception cycle underlying spatial hearing. It highlights the interesting properties of the auditory system, such as its organization in azimuth and elevation coordinates. Readers will appreciate that sound localization is inherently a neuro-computational process (it needs to process on implicit and independent acoustic cues). The localization problem of which sound location gave rise to a particular sensory acoustic input cannot be uniquely solved, and therefore requires some clever strategies to cope with everyday situations. The reader is guided through the full interdisciplinary repertoire of the natural sciences: not only neurobiology, but also physics and mathematics, and current theories on sensorimotor integration (e.g. Bayesian approaches to deal with uncertain information) and neural encoding.

The Auditory System and Human Sound-Localization Behavior provides a comprehensive account of the full action-perception cycle underlying spatial hearing. It highlights the interesting properties of the auditory system, such as its organization in azimuth and elevation coordinates. Readers will appreciate that sound localization is inherently a neuro-computational process (it needs to process on implicit and independent acoustic cues). The localization problem of which sound location gave rise to a particular sensory acoustic input cannot be uniquely solved, and therefore requires some clever strategies to cope with everyday situations. The reader is guided through the full interdisciplinary repertoire of the natural sciences: not only neurobiology, but also physics and mathematics, and current theories on sensorimotor integration (e.g. Bayesian approaches to deal with uncertain information) and neural encoding.

Key Features

  • Quantitative, model-driven approaches to the full action-perception cycle of sound-localization behavior and eye-head gaze control
  • Comprehensive introduction to acoustics, systems analysis, computational models, and neurophysiology of the auditory system
  • Full account of gaze-control paradigms that probe the acoustic action-perception cycle, including multisensory integration, auditory plasticity, and hearing impaired
  • Quantitative, model-driven approaches to the full action-perception cycle of sound-localization behavior and eye-head gaze control
  • Comprehensive introduction to acoustics, systems analysis, computational models, and neurophysiology of the auditory system
  • Full account of gaze-control paradigms that probe the acoustic action-perception cycle, including multisensory integration, auditory plasticity, and hearing impaired

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978-0-12-801529-2

Language

English

Published

2016

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Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Academic Press

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Authors

John van Opstal

Department of Biophysics
Donders Centre for Neuroscience
Radboud University Nijmegen
The Netherlands