Auditory Perception

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A 'top down' or 'cognitive neuroscience' approach to cochlear implant designs and fittings. 
  • A biological rationale for musical consonance. 
  • A bird's eye view: top down intracellular analyses of auditory selectivity for learned vocalizations. 
  • A computational model for signal processing by the dorsal cochlear nucleus. I. Responses to pure tones. 
  • A computational model for signal processing by the dorsal cochlear nucleus. II. Responses to broadband and notch noise. 
  • A pilot investigation of audiovisual processing and multisensory integration in patients with inherited retinal dystrophies. 
  • A synaptic basis for auditory-vocal integration in the songbird. 
  • Adaptive optimum detection: synchronous-recurrent transients. 
  • Adult age differences in attention: filtering or selection? 
  • An fMRI investigation of race-related amygdala activity in African-American and Caucasian-American individuals. 
  • Analysis of the performance of a model-based optimal auditory signal processor. 
  • Are auditory percepts determined by experience? 
  • Attentional bias between modalities: effect on the internal clock, memory, and decision stages used in animal time discrimination. 
  • Auditory attention in the congenitally blind: where, when and what gets reorganized? 
  • Auditory evoked potentials during speech perception. 
  • Auditory synapses to song premotor neurons are gated off during vocalization in zebra finches. 
  • Auditory-vocal mirroring in songbirds. 
  • Auditory/visual duration bisection in patients with left or right medial-temporal lobe resection. 
  • Binaural auditory beats affect vigilance performance and mood. 
  • Cardiac responses to acoustic playback experiments in the captive bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). 
  • Categorical scaling of duration as a function of temporal context in aged rats. 
  • Combined use of microreflexes and event-related brain potentials as measures of auditory selective attention. 
  • Computational inference of neural information flow networks. 
  • Conditioning changes in differential skin temperature. 
  • Criterial range as a frame of reference for stimulus judgment. 
  • Cross-modal stimulus conflict: the behavioral effects of stimulus input timing in a visual-auditory Stroop task. 
  • Development of fricative sound perception in Korean infants: The role of language experience and infants' initial sensitivity. 
  • Differences in mismatch responses to vowels and musical intervals: MEG evidence. 
  • Different mechanisms are responsible for dishabituation of electrophysiological auditory responses to a change in acoustic identity than to a change in stimulus location. 
  • Differential effects of auditory and visual signals on clock speed and temporal memory. 
  • Do negative views of aging influence memory and auditory performance through self-perceived abilities? 
  • Early onset of deafening-induced song deterioration and differential requirements of the pallial-basal ganglia vocal pathway. 
  • Effects of reward and behavioral context on neural activity in the primate inferior colliculus. 
  • Electromyography as a recording system for eyeblink conditioning with functional magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • Encoding of spectral correlation over time in auditory cortex. 
  • Expectancy in humans in multisecond peak-interval timing with gaps. 
  • Factors influencing pursuit of hearing evaluation: Enhancing the health belief model with perceived burden from hearing loss on communication partners. 
  • Functional organization of activation patterns in children: whole brain fMRI imaging during three different cognitive tasks. 
  • Good times for multisensory integration: Effects of the precision of temporal synchrony as revealed by gamma-band oscillations. 
  • Identification and the form of multidimensional discrimination space. 
  • Imagery and retrieval of auditory and visual information: neural correlates of successful and unsuccessful performance. 
  • Increased tone-offset response in the lateral nucleus of the amygdala underlies trace fear conditioning. 
  • Individual recognition through olfactory-auditory matching in lemurs. 
  • Intermodal attention affects the processing of the temporal alignment of audiovisual stimuli. 
  • Intrinsic and extrinsic contributions to auditory selectivity in a song nucleus critical for vocal plasticity. 
  • Lateral symmetry of auditory attention in hemispherectomized patients. 
  • Lateralized auditory spatial perception and the contralaterality of cortical processing as studied with functional magnetic resonance imaging and magnetoencephalography. 
  • Listening to Religious Music and Mental Health in Later Life. 
  • Long lasting attenuation by prior sounds in auditory cortex of awake primates. 
  • Longitudinal changes in hearing sensitivity among men: the Veterans Affairs Normative Aging Study. 
  • Manipulation of a central auditory representation shapes learned vocal output. 
  • Mechanisms of auditory selective attention as revealed by event-related potentials. 
  • Mechanisms of early selective attention in auditory and visual modalities. 
  • Memory for timing visual and auditory signals in albino and pigmented rats. 
  • Modality differences in timing and temporal memory throughout the lifespan. 
  • Modulation of early sensory processing in human auditory cortex during auditory selective attention. 
  • Momentary reductions of attention permit greater processing of irrelevant stimuli. 
  • Monkeys match and tally quantities across senses. 
  • Motor circuits help encode auditory memories of vocal models used to guide vocal learning. 
  • Motor-related signals in the auditory system for listening and learning. 
  • Multisensory conflict modulates the spread of visual attention across a multisensory object. 
  • Myosin VIIA, important for human auditory function, is necessary for Drosophila auditory organ development. 
  • Neonatal behavior of infants of adolescent mothers. 
  • Neural correlates of automatic and controlled auditory processing in schizophrenia. 
  • Neural correlates of categorical perception in learned vocal communication. 
  • Neural correlates of learned song in the avian forebrain: simultaneous representation of self and others. 
  • North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) ignore ships but respond to alerting stimuli. 
  • Oscillation patterns of local field potentials in the dorsal striatum and sensorimotor cortex during the encoding, maintenance, and decision stages for the ordinal comparison of sub- and supra-second signal durations. 
  • Pathways connecting the right and left cochlear nuclei. 
  • Persistent representation of juvenile experience in the adult songbird brain. 
  • Pilocarpine seizures cause age-dependent impairment in auditory location discrimination. 
  • Pinna reflections as cues for localization. 
  • Precise auditory-vocal mirroring in neurons for learned vocal communication. 
  • Predicting auditory tone-in-noise detection performance: the effects of neural variability. 
  • Predicting dynamic range and intensity discrimination for electrical pulse-train stimuli using a stochastic auditory nerve model: the effects of stimulus noise. 
  • Processing two dimensions of nonspeech stimuli: the auditory-phonetic distinction reconsidered. 
  • Protein kinase C mediates potentiation of synaptic transmission by phorbol ester at parallel fibers in the dorsal cochlear nucleus. 
  • Quality of life in hearing-impaired adults: the role of cochlear implants and hearing aids. 
  • Rapid Context-based Identification of Target Sounds in an Auditory Scene. 
  • Real-time fMRI paradigm control, physiology, and behavior combined with near real-time statistical analysis. 
  • Reduced P3 amplitude of the event-related brain potential: its relationship to language ability in autism. 
  • Reference frame of the ventriloquism aftereffect. 
  • Ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) exploit information about what others can see but not what they can hear. 
  • Seeing sounds: visual and auditory interactions in the brain. 
  • Sensitive periods and circuits for learned birdsong. 
  • Sensitivity to temporal modulation rate and spectral bandwidth in the human auditory system: fMRI evidence. 
  • Sensory coding. 
  • Sensory modality and time perception in children and adults. 
  • Sensory superstition on multiple interval schedules. 
  • Single neurons may encode simultaneous stimuli by switching between activity patterns. 
  • Single-sensor multispeaker listening with acoustic metamaterials. 
  • Social Mimicry Enhances Mu-Suppression During Action Observation. 
  • Song decrystallization in adult zebra finches does not require the song nucleus NIf. 
  • Sustained attention and response inhibition in boys with fragile X syndrome: measures of continuous performance. 
  • Task difficulty modulates brain activation in the emotional oddball task. 
  • Temporal integration in duration and number discrimination. 
  • The Song Remains the Same. 
  • The Temporal Cascade of Neural Processes Underlying Target Detection and Attentional Processing During Auditory Search. 
  • The cortical analysis of speech-specific temporal structure revealed by responses to sound quilts. 
  • The cross-modal spread of attention reveals differential constraints for the temporal and spatial linking of visual and auditory stimulus events. 
  • The development of a phonological illusion: a cross-linguistic study with Japanese and French infants. 
  • The dusp1 immediate early gene is regulated by natural stimuli predominantly in sensory input neurons. 
  • The effect of age on hemispheric asymmetry in visual and auditory identification. 
  • The fine structure of the lateral superior olivary nucleus of the cat. 
  • The frequency of voluntary and involuntary autobiographical memories across the life span. 
  • The genome of a songbird. 
  • The neural circuitry underlying the executive control of auditory spatial attention. 
  • The organization of central auditory pathways in a reptile, Iguana iguana. 
  • The role of auditory feedback in vocal learning and maintenance. 
  • The spread of attention across modalities and space in a multisensory object. 
  • Timing is everything: neural response dynamics during syllable processing and its relation to higher-order cognition in schizophrenia and healthy comparison subjects. 
  • Two models for transforming auditory signals from head-centered to eye-centered coordinates. 
  • Two new directions in speech processor design for cochlear implants. 
  • Use of AlloDerm in type I tympanoplasty: a comparison with native tissue grafts. 
  • Vasopressin metabolite neuropeptide facilitates simultaneous temporal processing. 
  • Video game players show more precise multisensory temporal processing abilities. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Groh, Jennifer M., Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Hartemink, Alexander J., Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Biology
  • Huettel, Lisa Gresham, Professor of the Practice in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Nowicki, Stephen, Professor of Biology, Biology
  • Overath, Tobias, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Schmehl, Meredith, Student, Neurobiology
  • Wilson, Blake Shaw, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Surgery, Pratt School of Engineering
  • Woldorff, Marty G., Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke Science & Society