Plasticity and Signal Representation in the Auditory System

1. Front Matter

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2. Physiological Aspects of the Auditory Processing

   1. Interaural Time Difference Processing

      • Alan R. Palmer, Benedikt Grothe

      Pages 1-13

   2. Interplay of Excitation and Inhibition in Auditory Brainstem Processing at Endbulbs of Held of the MNTB and AVCN

      • Susanne Dehmel, Cornelia Kopp-Scheinpflug, Rudolf Rübsamen

      Pages 15-36

   3. Topographic Representation of Periodicity Information: The 2nd Neural Axis of the Auditory System

      • Gerald Langner

      Pages 37-51

   4. Complex Frequency Tuning of Neurons in the Mouse Inferior Colliculus

      • Christine V. Portfors

      Pages 53-57

   5. Role of KCC2 in Auditory Processing of the Brainstem

      • Motoi Kudo, Takaaki Nakamura, Kiyoshi Kurokawa

      Pages 59-63

   6. Spatial and Functional Properties of Neuronal Responses to Simulated Sound Source Motion in the Inferior Colliculus of the Cat

      • Elena A. Radionova

      Pages 65-69

   7. Temporal and Rate Representations of Time-Varying Signals in Auditory Cortex

      • Xiaoqin Wang, Thomas Lu, Li Liang

      Pages 71-83

   8. Communication-Call Representation in the Mouse Auditory Cortex: Perception vs. Recognition

      • Günter Ehret, Diana B. Geissler

      Pages 85-96

3. Plasticity of the Auditory System in Experimental Animals

   1. Molecular Mechanisms in Deafness Related Auditory Brain Stem Plasticity

      • Richard A. Altschuler, Avril Genene Holt, Mikiya Asako, Catherine A. Lomax, Margaret I. Lomax, Jose Juiz

      Pages 97-107

   2. Challenges to a Neuroanatomical Theory of Forebrain Auditory Plasticity

      • Jeffery A. Winer, Charles C. Lee, Kazuo Imaizumi, Christoph E. Schreiner

      Pages 109-125

   3. Rewiring Cortex: Functional Plasticity of the Auditory Cortex during Development

      • Jessica R. Newton, Mriganka Sur

      Pages 127-137

   4. Plasticity of Tonotopic and Correlation Maps in Cat Primary Auditory Cortex

      • Jos J. Eggermont

      Pages 139-151

   5. Small Cochlear Damage Causes Unmasking and Plasticity in Supra-Threshold Cortical Responses

      • Ramish Rajan

      Pages 153-167

   6. Changes in Auditory Function Following Auditory Cortex Inactivation

      • Josef Syka, Jiří Popelář, Natalia Rybalko, Fidel C. Nwabueze-Ogbo, Jana Mazelová, Daniel Šuta

      Pages 169-180

   7. Plastic Changes in the Primary Auditory Cortex in Cochlear Implanted Deaf Cats

      • Rainer Klinke, Andrej Kral, Silvia Heid, Rainer Hartmann

      Pages 181-190

   8. Input Desynchronization and Impaired Columnar Activation in Deprived Auditory Cortex Revealed by Independent Component Analysis

      • Peter Hubka, Andrej Kral, Rainer Klinke

      Pages 191-195

   9. Temporal Firing Activities of Auditory Cortical Neurons and Modification of Their Activities by Laser Irradiation

      • Hiroshi Riquimaroux, Yosky Kataoka

      Pages 197-202

   10. Neurodynamics in Auditory Cortex During Category Learning

       • Frank W. Ohl, Wolfram Wetzel, Matthias Deliano, Henning Scheich, Walter J. Freeman

       Pages 203-215

4. Interaural Time Difference Processing

   1. Comparison of Two Rat Models of Aging

      • Jeremy G. Turner, Donald M. Caspary

      Pages 217-225

The symposium that has provided the basis for this book, "Plasticity of the Central Auditory System and Processing of Complex Acoustic Signals" was held in Prague on July 7-10, 2003. This is the fourth in a series of seminal meetings summarizing the state of development of auditory system neuroscience that has been organized in that great world city. Books that have resulted from these meetings represent important benchmarks for auditory neuroscience over the past 25 years. A 1980 meeting, "Neuronal Mechanisms of Hearing" hosted the most distinguished hearing researchers focusing on underlying brain processes from this era. It resulted in a highly influential and widely subscribed and cited proceedings co-edited by professor Lindsay Aitkin. The subject of the 1987 meeting was the "Auditory Pathway - Structure and Function". It again resulted in another important update of hearing science research in a widely referenced book - edited by the late Bruce Masterton. While the original plan was to hold a meeting summarizing the state of auditory system neuroscience every 7 years, historical events connected with the disintegration of the Soviet Empire and return of freedom to Czechoslovakia resulted in an unavoidable delay of what was planned to be a 1994 meeting. It wasn't until 1996 that we were able to meet for the third time in Prague, at that time to review "Acoustical Signal Processing in the Central Auditory System".

• Cortex
• brainstem
• forebrain
• neurons
• perception
• physiology

• Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

  Josef Syka

• Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco

  Michael M. Merzenich

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