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The Human Auditory Cortex (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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The Human Auditory Cortex (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 43
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We live in a complex and dynamically changing acoustic environment.
To this end, the auditory cortex of humans has developed the
ability to process a remarkable amount of diverse acoustic
information with apparent ease. In fact, a phylogenetic comparison
of auditory systems reveals that human auditory association cortex
in particular has undergone extensive changes relative to that of
other species, although our knowledge of this remains incomplete.
In contrast to other senses, human auditory cortex receives input
that is highly pre-processed in a number of sub-cortical
structures; this suggests that even primary auditory cortex already
performs quite complex analyses. At the same time, much of the
functional role of the various sub-areas in human auditory cortex
is still relatively unknown, and a more sophisticated understanding
is only now emerging through the use of contemporary
electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques. The integration
of results across the various techniques signify a new era in our
knowledge of how human auditory cortex forms basis for auditory
experience. This volume on human auditory cortex will have two
major parts. In Part A, the principal methodologies currently used
to investigate human auditory cortex will be discussed. Each
chapter will first outline how the methodology is used in auditory
neuroscience, highlighting the challenges of obtaining data from
human auditory cortex; second, each methods chapter will provide
two or (at most) three brief examples of how it has been used to
generate a major result about auditory processing. In Part B, the
central questions for auditory processing in human auditory cortex
are covered. Each chapter can draw on all the methods introduced in
Part A but will focus on a major computational challenge the system
has to solve. This volume will constitute an important contemporary
reference work on human auditory cortex. Arguably, this will be the
first and most focused book on this critical neurological
structure. The combination of different methodological and
experimental approaches as well as a diverse range of aspects of
human auditory perception ensures that this volume will inspire
novel insights and spurn future research.
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