The auditory system and human sound-localization behavior / John van Opstal.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: xii, 423 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0128015292
- 9780128015292
- 612.85 OPS
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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.
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.
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