AUDITORY FUNCTION Neurobiological Bases of Hearing Edited by GERALD M. EDELMAN W. EINAR GALL W. MAXWELL COWAN • Toronto • Singapore Contents Preface SECTION 1 THE DEVELOPING AUDITORY SYSTEM Chapter 1 Organization and Development of the Avian Brain- Stem Auditory System 3 Edwin W Rubel and Thomas N. Parks Chapter 2 Modulation of Cell Adhesion Molecules During Induction and Differentiation of the Auditory Placode 93 Kathryn I. Crossin, Guy P. Richardson, Cheng-Ming Chuong, and Gerald M. Edelman Chapter 3 Stimulus Coding in the Developing Auditory System 113 John F. Brugge Chapter 4 Experience Shapes Sound Localization and Auditory Unit Properties During Development in the Barn Owl 137 Eric I. Knudsen SECTION 2 THE COCHLEA AND AUDITORY NERVE Chapter 5 Cochlear Neurobiology: Some Key Experiments and Concepts of the Past Two Decades 153 Peter Dallos — Chapter 6 Cochlear Macromechanics 189 Hendrikus Duifhuis Chapter 7 Psychophysical Aspects of Auditory Intensity Coding 213 Neal F. Viemeister Chapter 8 Encoding of Sound Intensity by Auditory Neurons 243 Robert L. Smith SECTION 3 NEURONS, PROJECTIONS, AND REPRESENTATIONS vii viii Contents Chapter 9 Response Properties of Cochlear Nucleus Neurons in Relationship to Physiological Mechanisms 277 Eric D. Young, William P. Shofner, John A. White, Jeanne-Marie Robert, and Herbert F. Voigt Chapter 10 Electrical Characteristics of Cells and Neuronal Circuitry in the Cochlear Nuclei Studied with Intracellular Recordings from Brain Slices 313 Donata Oertel, Shu Hui Wu, and Judith A. Hirsch Chapter 11 Coding of Temporal Patterns in the Central Auditory Nervous System 337 Christoph E. Schreiner and Gerald Langner Chapter 12 Frequency Resolution, Spectral Filtering, and Integration on the Neuronal Level 363 Giinter Ehret Chapter 13 Neural Mechanisms Underlying Interaural Time Sensitivity to Tones and Noise 385 Tom C. T. Yin and Joseph C. K. Chan Chapter 14 Auditory Mechanisms Underlying a Neural Code for Space in the Cat's Superior Colliculus 431 John C. Middlebrooks Chapter 15 Organization of the Cat's Auditory Thalamus 457 - Thorns J. Imig and Anne Morel Chapter 16 Dynamic Modulation of the Auditory System by Associative Learning 485 Norman M. Weinberger and David M. Diamond SECTION 4 PSYCHOPHYSICS: TIMING, MASKING, AND LATERALIZATION Chapter 17 Temporal Mechanisms in Auditory Stimulus Coding 515 Eric Javel, JoAnn McGee, J. Wiebe Horst, and Glenn R. Farley Chapter 18 Peripheral and Central Factors in Intensity Perception 559 Louis D. Braida and Nathaniel I. Durlach Contents ix Chapter 19 Dynamic Aspects of Auditory Masking 585 Brian C. J. Moore Chapter 20 Auditory Profile Analysis: Some Experiments on Spectral Shape Discrimination 609 David M. Green Chapter 21 Pitch Perception and the Segregation and Integration of Auditory Entities 623 William M. Hartmann Chapter 22 Onset-Coding in Lateralization: Its Form, Site, and Function 647 Ervin R. Hafter, Thomas N. Buell, and Virginia M. Richards SECTION 5 NEUROETHOLOGY, AUDITION, AND SPEECH Chapter 23 Auditory Neuroethology and Speech Processing: Complex-Sound Processing by Combination-Sensitive Neurons 679 Nobuo Suga Chapter 24 Neurophysiological and Anatomical Substrates of Sound Localization in the Owl 721 Masakazu Konishi, Terry T. Takahashi, Hermann Wagner, Winthrop E. Sullivan, and Catherine E. Carr Chapter 25 -Representation of Speech in the Auditory Periphery 747 Murray B. Sachs, Raimond L. Winslow, and Carol C. Blackburn Chapter 26 Specialized Perceiving Systems for Speech and Other Biologically Significant Sounds 775 Ignatius G. Mattingly and Alvin M. Liberman CONTRIBUTORS AND PARTICIPANTS 795 INDEX 799 .