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Reviews the research history of auditory processing in the neural system
Describes auditory processing from the peripheral nervous system to the cortical system
Examines new technologies to investigate auditory processing
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Table of contents (3 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book explains neural function at the level of ion channels and membrane excitability in neurons along the ascending auditory pathway. Airborne sound information is captured by the ears, transformed to neural electrical signals, and then processed in the brain. Readers will find full descriptions of these processes of signal transduction and transformation. First, it is described how, at the level of hair cells, the receptor cells in the cochlea, the sound-evoked vibration is transduced to electrical signals and transmitted to the auditory nerve fibers. In the second section it is explained how the electrical activity of these fibers is processed at the cochlear nucleus in order to extract the temporal and level information of sound separately and then transmitted to the third nucleus for processing of the interaural differences, such as the interaural time difference and the interaural level difference. The third section summarizes the transformation of auditory temporal information to the rate of neural firing activity in the midbrain and the higher nuclei, including the cortex, based on in vivo results. Finally, emerging new technologies to investigate auditory signal processing are reviewed and discussed.
Authors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Medicine, Emeritus Professor of Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Harunori Ohmori
About the author
Harunori Ohmori, MD, PhD
Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Auditory Information Processing
Authors: Harunori Ohmori
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9713-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9712-8Published: 09 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-32-9715-9Published: 10 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-32-9713-5Published: 26 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 144
Number of Illustrations: 58 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Neurosciences, Cell Biology, Neurobiology