Perspectives on Auditory Research

This book celebrates the last two decades of the SpringerHandbook in Auditory Research. It looks back on the progress made in the hearing sciences as well as major questions for the future. Includes over 30 contributions from the leading experts in the field.

A Brief History of SHAR.- Structures, Mechanisms and Energetics in Temporal Processing.- The Human Auditory Cortex: In Search of the Flying Dutchman.- From Cajal to the Connectome: Building a Neuroanatomical Framework for Understanding the Auditory System.- Recording from Hair Cells.- Three Decades of Tinnitus Related Research.- The Sense of Hearing in Fishes.- A Quarter-Century’s Perspective on a Psychoacoustical Approach to Loudness.- Nonsyndromic Deafness: It Ain’t Necessarily So.- Evolving Mechanosensory Hair Cells to Hearing Organs by Altering Genes and Their Expression.- The Implications of Discharge Regularity-My Forty-Year Peek into the Vestibular System.- Aging, Hearing Loss and Speech Recognition: Stop Shouting, I Can’t Understand You.- Cochlear Mechanics, Otoacoustic Emissions and Medial Olivocochlear Efferents: 20 Years of Advances and Controversies Along with Areas Ripe for New Work.- Examining Fish in the Sea: A European Perspective on Fish Hearing Experiments.- The Behavioral Study of Mammalian Hearing.- Hearing in Insects: The Why, When and How.- The Cognitive Auditory System.- Fundamentals of Hearing in Amniote Vertebrate.- Directional Hearing in Insects and Other Small Animals: The Physics of Pressure-Difference Receiving Ears.- Cortical Representation of Sound Locations: Distributed Representation by Magnitude and Timing of Neural Spike Patterns.- Mechanisms Underlying the Pitch of Pure and Complex Tones.- Unavoidably Delayed: A Personal Perspective of Twenty Years of Research on a Sound Localization Cue.- Size Matters in Hearing: How the Auditory System Normalizes the Sounds of Speech and Music for Source Size.- A Changing View of the Auditory System Obtained from the Ears of Bats.- From Cave Fish to Pile Driving: A Tail of Fish Bioacoustics.- Current Topics in the Study of Sound Conduction to the Inner Ear.- From Degenerative Debris to Neuronal Tracing: An Anterograde View of Auditory Circuits.- Adventures in Bionic Hearing.- My Dull Deaf Ears:Four Millennia of Acquired Hearing Loss.- What’s the Use of Genetics?.- Advances in the Understanding of Binaural Information Processing: Consideration of the Stimulus as Processed.- Temporal Processing: Observations on the Psychophysics and Modeling of Temporal Integration and Temporal Resolution.- Psychoacoustics and Auditory Perception.- APPENDIX: Table of Contents from SHAR volumes 1-49.