The Auditory System at the Cocktail Party

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Middlebrooks, John C. (Editor), Simon, Jonathan Z. (Editor), Popper, Arthur N. (Editor), Fay, Richard R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 60
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Otorhinolaryngology.; Neurobiology.; Biomedicine.

The Auditory System at the Cocktail Party is a rather whimsical title that points to the very serious challenge faced by listeners in most everyday environments: how to hear out sounds of interest amid a cacophony of competing sounds. The volume presents the mechanisms for bottom-up object formation...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to the Cocktail Party
• Auditory Object Formation and Selection
• Spatial Mechanisms for Scene Analysis
• Informational masking and masking release
• Models of Stream Segregation
• Spatial Stream Segregation in the Auditory Cortex
• Neurophysiology and Neuroimaging of Auditory Stream Segregation in Humans
• Development
• Aging
• Cochlear implants and hearing aids.