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Neural Correlates of Auditory Cognition (Paperback)
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Neural Correlates of Auditory Cognition (Paperback)
Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 45
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Hearing and communication present a variety of challenges to the
nervous system. To be heard and understood, a communication signal
must be transformed from a time-varying acoustic waveform to a
perceptual representation to an even more abstract representation
that integrates memory stores with semantic/referential
information. Finally, this complex, abstract representation must be
interpreted to form categorical decisions that guide behavior. Did
I hear the stimulus? From where and whom did it come? What does it
tell me? How can I use this information to plan an action? All of
these issues and questions underlie auditory cognition. Since the
early 1990s, there has been a re-birth of studies that test the
neural correlates of auditory cognition with a unique emphasis on
the use of awake, behaving animals as model. Continuing today, how
and where in the brain neural correlates of auditory cognition are
formed is an intensive and active area of research. Importantly,
our understanding of the role that the cortex plays in hearing has
the potential to impact the next generation of cochlear- and
brainstem-auditory implants and consequently help those with
hearing impairments. Thus, it is timely to produce a volume that
brings together this exciting literature on the neural correlates
of auditory cognition. This volume compliments and extends many
recent SHAR volumes such as Sound Source Localization (2005)
Auditory Perception of Sound Sources (2007), and Human Auditory
Cortex (2010). For example, in many of these volumes, similar
issues are discussed such as auditory-object identification and
perception with different emphases: in Auditory Perception of Sound
Sources, authors discuss the underlying psychophysics/behavior,
whereas in the Human Auditory Cortex, fMRI data are presented. The
unique contribution of the proposed volume is that the authors will
integrate both of these factors to highlight the neural correlates
of cognition/behavior. Moreover, unlike other these other volumes,
the neurophysiological data will emphasize the exquisite spatial
and temporal resolution of single-neuron [as opposed to more coarse
fMRI or MEG data] responses in order to reveal the elegant
representations and computations used by the nervous system.
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