
The Auditory System and Human Sound-Localization Behavior
- 1st Edition - April 18, 2016
- Author: John van Opstal
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 1 5 2 9 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 1 7 2 5 - 8
The Auditory System and Human Sound-Localization Behavior provides a comprehensive account of the full action-perception cycle underlying spatial hearing. It highlights the inter… Read more

The Auditory System and Human Sound-Localization Behavior provides a comprehensive account of the full action-perception cycle underlying spatial hearing. It highlights the interesting properties of the auditory system, such as its organization in azimuth and elevation coordinates. Readers will appreciate that sound localization is inherently a neuro-computational process (it needs to process on implicit and independent acoustic cues). The localization problem of which sound location gave rise to a particular sensory acoustic input cannot be uniquely solved, and therefore requires some clever strategies to cope with everyday situations. The reader is guided through the full interdisciplinary repertoire of the natural sciences: not only neurobiology, but also physics and mathematics, and current theories on sensorimotor integration (e.g. Bayesian approaches to deal with uncertain information) and neural encoding.
- Quantitative, model-driven approaches to the full action-perception cycle of sound-localization behavior and eye-head gaze control
- Comprehensive introduction to acoustics, systems analysis, computational models, and neurophysiology of the auditory system
- Full account of gaze-control paradigms that probe the acoustic action-perception cycle, including multisensory integration, auditory plasticity, and hearing impaired
1. Introduction2. The nature of sound3. Linear systems analysis4. Nonlinear systems analysis5. The cochlea6. The auditory nerve7. Cues for human sound localization8. Assessing auditory spatial performance9. The gaze orienting system10. The midbrain colliculus11. Coordinate transformations in the brain12. Sound localization behavior and plasticity13. Audiovisual integration14. The Auditory System and Human Sound-Localization Behavior
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 18, 2016
- Language: English
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