Table Of ContentSpringer Handbook of Auditory Research
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Yale E. Cohen Arthur N. Popper Richard R. Fay
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Editors
Neural Correlates
of Auditory Cognition
Editors
Yale E. Cohen Arthur N. Popper
Department of Otorhinolaryngology Department of Biology
Perelman School of Medicine University of Maryland
University of Pennsylvania College Park, MD, USA
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Richard R. Fay
Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, MA, USA
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Series Preface
The preface that follows is the one that we published in Volume 1 of the Springer
Handbook of Auditory Research back in 1992. Thus, 2012 marks the 20th year of
SHAR. As anyone reading the original preface, or the many users of the series, will
note, we have far exceeded our original expectation of eight volumes. Indeed, with
books published to date, and those in the pipeline, we are now set for more than 50
volumes in SHAR, and we are still open to new and exciting ideas for additional
books.
We are very proud that there seems to be consensus, at least among our friends
and colleagues, that SHAR has become an important and in fl uential part of the audi-
tory literature. While we have worked hard to develop and maintain the quality and
value of SHAR, the real value of the books is very much attributable to the numer-
ous authors who have given their time to write outstanding chapters and to our
many coeditors who have provided the intellectual leadership to the individual
volumes. We have worked with a remarkable and wonderful group of people, many
of whom have become great personal friends of both of us. We also continue to
work with a spectacular group of editors at Springer, currently Ann Avouris. Indeed,
several of our past editors have moved on in the publishing world to become senior
executives. To our delight, this includes the current president of Springer US,
Dr. William Curtis.
But the truth is that the series would not and could not be possible without the
support of our families, and we want to take this opportunity to dedicate all of the
SHAR books, past and future, to them. Our wives, Catherine Fay and Helen Popper,
and our children, Michelle Popper Levit, Melissa Popper Levinsohn, Christian Fay,
and Amanda Fay, have been immensely patient as we developed and worked on this
series. We thank them, and state, without doubt, that this series could not have hap-
pened without them.
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Preface 1992
The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of comprehensive
and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modern auditory research. The
volumes are aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing research including
advanced graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and clinical investigators.
The volumes are intended to introduce new investigators to important aspects of
hearing science and to help established investigators to better understand the funda-
mental theories and data in fi elds of hearing that they may not normally follow
closely.
Each volume presents a particular topic comprehensively, and each serves as a
synthetic overview and guide to the literature. As such, the chapters present neither
exhaustive data reviews nor original research that has not yet appeared in peer-
reviewed journals. The volumes focus on topics that have developed a solid data
and conceptual foundation rather than on those for which a literature is only begin-
ning to develop. New research areas will be covered on a timely basis in the series
as they begin to mature.
Each volume in the series consists of a few substantial chapters on a particular
topic. In some cases, the topics will be ones of traditional interest for which there
is a substantial body of data and theory, such as auditory neuroanatomy (Vol. 1) and
neurophysiology (Vol. 2). Other volumes in the series deal with topics that have
begun to mature more recently, such as development, plasticity, and computational
models of neural processing. In many cases, the series editors are joined by a coedi-
tor having special expertise in the topic of the volume.
Richard R. Fay, Falmouth, MA
Arthur N. Popper, College Park, MD
Volume Preface
Hearing and communication present a variety of challenges to the nervous system.
To be heard and to be understood, a communication signal must be transformed
from a time-varying acoustic waveform to a perceptual representation and then to
an abstract representation that combines the perceptual representation with memory
stores and semantic/referential information. Finally, this 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 audi-
tory cognition.
This volume emphasizes those literatures that c ombine measurements of behav-
ioral (psychophysical) responses with measurements of the responses of single neu-
rons. Since the auditory cortex is modulated by cognitive factors (e.g., attention,
memory, and reward values) and ongoing task demands, their effect on the neural
code can be tested only when behavioral responses and single-neuron activity are
simultaneously recorded. This relationship between behavior and single-neuron
activity is one of the most signi fi cant issues in auditory neuroscience and, more
generally, in sensory and cognitive neuroscience.
Chapters 2 and 3 set the stage for the remaining chapters in the book. In Chapter 2,
Rauschecker reviews the hypothesis that the auditory cortex contains two functional
processing streams: one pathway devoted to the neural computations underlying
spatial processing (where is the sound?) and the other pathway devoted to computa-
tions underlying auditory-object processing (what is the sound?). In Chapter 3,
Scheich and Brosch review the contribution of the auditory cortex to cognitive com-
ponents of auditory behavior. The next section of this volume expands on the topics
raised by Rauschecker in Chapter 2. In Chapter 4, Recanzone discusses the role of
the auditory cortex in spatial processing and localization, while in Chapter 5,
Schnupp, Honey, and Willmore focus on auditory-object perception and the neural
correlates underlying this form of perception.
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