The Frequency-Following Response

1. Front Matter

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2. The Frequency-Following Response: A Window into Human Communication

   • Nina Kraus, Samira Anderson, Travis White-Schwoch

   Pages 1-15

3. Infant and Childhood Development: Intersections Between Development and Language Experience

   • Fuh-Cherng Jeng

   Pages 17-43

4. Shaping Brainstem Representation of Pitch-Relevant Information by Language Experience

   • Ananthanarayan Krishnan, Jackson T. Gandour

   Pages 45-73

5. Short-Term Learning and Memory: Training and Perceptual Learning

   • Samuele Carcagno, Christopher J. Plack

   Pages 75-100

6. The Role of the Auditory Brainstem in Regularity Encoding and Deviance Detection

   • Carles Escera

   Pages 101-120

7. The Janus Face of Auditory Learning: How Life in Sound Shapes Everyday Communication

   • Travis White-Schwoch, Nina Kraus

   Pages 121-158

8. Individual Differences in Temporal Perception and Their Implications for Everyday Listening

   • Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Leonard Varghese, Le Wang, Hari Bharadwaj

   Pages 159-192

9. Communicating in Challenging Environments: Noise and Reverberation

   • Gavin M. Bidelman

   Pages 193-224

10. Understanding Auditory Processing Disorder Through the FFR

    • Eliane Schochat, Caroline Nunes Rocha-Muniz, Renata Filippini

    Pages 225-250

11. Neurobiology of Literacy and Reading Disorders

    • Rachel Reetzke, Zilong Xie, Bharath Chandrasekaran

    Pages 251-266

12. Clinical Translation: Aging, Hearing Loss, and Amplification

    • Samira Anderson

    Pages 267-294

This volume will cover a variety of topics, including child language development; hearing loss; listening in noise; statistical learning; poverty; auditory processing disorder; cochlear neuropathy; attention; and aging. It will appeal broadly to auditory scientists—and in fact, any scientist interested in the biology of human communication and learning. The range of the book highlights the interdisciplinary series of questions that are pursued using the auditory frequency-following response and will accordingly attract a wide and diverse readership, while remaining a lasting resource for the field.

• audiology
• auditory pathway
• neurophysiology
• psychoacoustics
• language experience

“This is a very good textbook on the neurophysiology of speech, hearing, understanding, & communication. The book spans clinical development of hearing from childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and aging in human and animals experimental subjects. … The book will be benefit auditory therapists, audiologists, speech and language therapists, and hearing researchers at all levels.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, June, 2018)

• Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

  Nina Kraus

• Dept. of Hearing &Speech Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

  Samira Anderson

• Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

  Travis White-Schwoch

• Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA

  Richard R. Fay

• Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

  Arthur N. Popper

Nina Kraus has innovated the use of FFR as a measure of human communication skills, life experience, and auditory learning and memory. She is a senior scholar in the field and brings over 30 years’ experience pursuing basic and translational questions in auditory neuroscience. Samira Anderson is a scientist-clinician who brings 25 years’ experience in the clinic and as a young investigator has made major contributions to the understanding of central auditory processing, with a particular emphasis on neuroplasticity and aging/hearing loss. Travis White-Schwoch is a member of the Kraus laboratory with extensive experience in FFR theory and technology, and developmental changes in auditory processing. The editorial team has a strong history of collaboration, and together they bring unique knowledge to the book. Arthur N. Popper is Professor in the Department of Biology and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing at the University of Maryland, College Park. Richard R. Fay is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Chicago.

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