Acoustic masking from anthropogenic noise is increasingly being considered as a threat to
marine mammals, particularly low-frequency specialists such as baleen whales. Low …

The responses to sound of auditory-nerve fibers are well known in many animals but are
topics of conjecture for humans. Some investigators have claimed that the auditory-nerve …

Poorer hearing in the presence of background noise is a significant problem for the hearing
impaired. Ototoxic drugs, ageing, and noise exposure can damage the sensory hair cells of …

What do animals hear? While it remains challenging to adequately assess sensory
perception in animal models, it is important to determine perceptual abilities in model …

Auditory filters broaden with increasing level. Using a recently developed method of fitting
filter shapes to notched-noise masking data that explicitly models the nonlinear changes in …

Pitch is one of the most fundamental percepts in the auditory system and can be extracted
using either spectral or temporal information in an acoustic signal. Although pitch perception …

This study expands the limited understanding of pinniped aerial auditory masking and
includes measurements at some of the relatively low frequencies predominant in many …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on neural processing that may be relevant for
understanding sound-source determination. Mistuning has shown to produce …

Frequency resolution and spectral filtering in the cat primary auditory cortex (AI) were
mapped by extracellular recordings of tone responses in white noise of various bandwidths …

Exposure to loud noise causes damage to the inner ear, including but not limited to outer
and inner hair cells (OHCs and IHCs) and IHC ribbon synapses. This cochlear damage …