The Human Auditory Cortex

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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The auditory cortex of humans must process a remarkable amount of complex and dynamically changing acoustic information. The Human Auditory Cortex brings the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research to its first detailed examination of auditory cortex, with emphasis on the techniques available as well as some major conceptual challenges.Introduction: Why Human Auditory Cortex? David Poeppel and Tobias OverathPart I The MethodsArchitecture, Connectivity, and Transmitter Receptors of Human Auditory Cortex Stephanie Clarke and Patricia MorosanInvasive Research Methods Matthew A. Howard III, Kirill V. Nourski, and John F. BruggeRecording Event-Related Brain Potentials: Application to Study Auditory Perception Claude Alain and István WinklerMagnetoencephalography Srikantan Nagarajan, Rodney A. Gabriel, and Alexander HermanHemodynamic Imaging: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Thomas M. Talavage, Ingrid S. Johnsrude, and Javier Gonzalez CastilloPart II The Principal Computational ChallengesCoding of Basic Acoustical and Perceptual Components of Sound in Human Auditory Cortex Deborah Hall and Daphne BarkerAuditory Object Analysis Timothy D. Griffiths, Christophe Micheyl, and Tobias OverathSpeech Perception from a Neurophysiological Perspective Anne-Lise Giraud and David PoeppelCortical Processing of Music Robert J. Zatorre and Jean Mary ZarateMultisensory Role of Human Auditory Cortex Virginie van Wassenhove and Charles E. SchroederRedefining the Functional Organization of the Planum Temporale Region: Space, Objects, and SensoryMotor Integration Gregory Hickok and Kourosh SaberiToward a Theory of Information Processing in Auditory Cortex Peter Cariani and Christophe MicheylAbout the Editors:David Poeppel is Professor of Psychology and Neural Science in the Department of Psychology, New York University. Tobias Overath is Research Associate at The Ear Institute at University College London. Arthur N. Popper is Professor in the Department of Biology and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing at the University of Maryland, College Park. Richard R. Fay is Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Chicago. About the Series: The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of synthetic reviews of fundamental topics dealing with auditory systems. Each volume is independent and authoritative; taken as a set, this series is the definitive resource in the field.

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1 Introduction: Why Human Auditory Cortex? David Poeppel and Tobias OverathI The Methods2 Architecture, Connectivity, and Transmitter Receptors of Human Auditory Cortex Stephanie Clarke and Patricia Morosan3 Invasive Research Methods Matthew A. Howard III, Kirill V. Nourski, and John F. Brugge4 Recording Event-Related Brain Potentials: Application to Study Auditory Perception Claude Alain and István Winkler5 Magnetoencephalography Srikantan Nagarajan, Rodney A. Gabriel, and Alexander Herman6 Hemodynamic Imaging: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Thomas M. Talavage, Ingrid S. Johnsrude, and Javier Gonzalez CastilloII The Principal Computational Challenges7 Coding of Basic Acoustical and Perceptual Components of Sound in Human Auditory Cortex Deborah Hall and Daphne Barker8 Auditory Object Analysis Timothy D. Griffiths, Christophe Micheyl, and Tobias Overath9 Speech Perception from a Neurophysiological Perspective Anne-Lise Giraud and David Poeppel10 Cortical Processing of Music Robert J. Zatorre and Jean Mary Zarate11 Multisensory Role of Human Auditory Cortex Virginie van Wassenhove and Charles E. Schroeder12 Redefining the Functional Organization of the Planum Temporale Region: Space, Objects, and SensoryMotor Integration Gregory Hickok and Kourosh Saberi13 Toward a Theory of Information Processing in Auditory Cortex Peter Cariani and Christophe Micheyl