The auditory system and human sound-localization behavior / John van Opstal.

By:

Van Opstal, John [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0128015292
9780128015292

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

612.85 OPS

Contents:

A brief introduction to the topic -- The nature of sound -- Linear systems -- Nonlinear systems -- The cochlea -- The auditory nerve -- Acoustic localization cues -- Assessing auditory spatial performance -- The gaze-orienting system -- The midbrain colliculus -- Coordinate transformations -- Sound localization plasticity -- Multisensory integration -- Impaired hearing and sound localization.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	612.85 OPS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Checked out	22/02/2022	39002100621417

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

1 Introduction
2 The nature of sound
3 Linear systems analysis
4 Nonlinear systems analysis
5 The cochlea
6 The auditory nerve
7 Cues for human sound localization
8 Assessing auditory spatial performance
9 The gaze orienting system
10 The midbrain colliculus
11 Coordinate transformations in the brain
12 Sound localization behavior and plasticity
13 Audiovisual integration
14 The Auditory System and Human Sound-Localization Behavior

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Dr. Van Opstal is a professor of Biophysics, studying sound localization behaviour of human and non-human primates, and in patients. He regards sound localization as an action-perception problem, and probes the system with fast, saccadic eye-head gaze-control paradigms, to study the very earliest correlates of the underlying neurocomputational mechanisms.