An important topic in contemporary auditory science is supra-threshold hearing. Difficulty
hearing at conversational speech levels in background noise has long been recognized as …

The cochlear nuclear complex gives rise to widespread projections to nuclei throughout the
brainstem. The projections arise from separate, well-defined populations of cells. None of …

▪ Abstract Vertebrate animals gain biologically important information from environmental
sounds. Localization of sound sources enables animals to detect and respond appropriately …

Periodicity pitch is the most salient and important of all pitch percepts. Psychoacoustical
models of this percept have long postulated the existence of internalized harmonic …

The anatomical and biophysical specializations of octopus cells allow them to detect the
coincident firing of groups of auditory nerve fibers and to convey the precise timing of that …

Sequencing of the rat genome has allowed a better understanding of the rat physiology and
biology, in turn promising to translate into a better understanding of human biology and …

The current popular and scientific interest in virtual environments has provided a new
impetus for investigating binaural and spatial hearing. However, the many intriguing …

1. The gene for a mammalian Shaw K+ channel has recently been cloned and has been
shown, by alternative splicing, to give rise to two different transcripts, Kv3. 1 alpha and Kv3 …

1. The principal cells of the dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) are mostly inhibited by best
frequency (BF) tones but are mostly excited by broadband noise (BBN), producing the so …

The distribution and colocalization of γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-and glycine-like
immunoreactivity in the cochlear nuclear complex of the guinea pig have been studied to …