From its inception in 1969, The International Symposium on Hearing has been a forum of excellence for debating the neurophysiological basis of auditory perception, with computational models as tools to test and unify physiological and perceptual theories. Every paper in this symposium includes two of the following: auditory physiology, psychophysics or modeling. The topics range from cochlear physiology to auditory attention and learning. The Neurophysiological Bases of Auditory Perception has a bottom-up structure from 'simpler' physiological to more 'complex' perceptual phenomena and follows the order of presentations at the 2009 meeting. The volume describes state-of-the-art knowledge on the most current topics of auditory science and will act as a valuable resource to stimulate further research.

Enrique A. Lopez-Poveda, Ph.D. is Director of the Auditory Computation and Psychoacoustics Unit of the Neuroscience Institute of Castilla y León (University of Salamanca, Spain). His research focuses on modeling human cochlear nonlinear signal processing and understanding the role of the peripheral auditory system in normal and impaired auditory perception.

Alan R. Palmer, Ph.D. is Deputy Director of the MRC Institute of Hearing Research and holds a Special Professorship in Neuroscience at the University of Nottingham,United Kingdom. He heads a research team that uses neurophysiological, computational and neuroanatomical techniques to study the way the brain processes sound.

Ray Meddis, Ph.D. is Director of the Hearing Research Laboratory at the University of Essex,United Kingdom. His research has concentrated on the development of computer models of the physiology of the auditory periphery and how these can be incorporated into models of psychophysical phenomena such as pitch and auditory scene analysis.

Enrique A. Lopez-Poveda, Ph.D. is director of the Auditory Computation and Psychoacoustics Unit of the Neuroscience Institute of Castilla y León (University of Salamanca, Spain). His research focuses on understanding and modeling human cochlear nonlinear signal processing and the role of the peripheral auditory system in normal and impaired auditory perception. He has authored over 45 scientific papers and book chapters and is co-editor of the book Computational Models of the Auditory System (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research). He has been principal investigator, participant and consultant on numerous research projects. He is member of the Acoustical Society of America and of the Association of Research in Otolaryngololgy.

Alan R. Palmer, Ph.D. is Deputy Director of the MRC Institute of Hearing Research and holds a Special Professorship in neuroscience at the University of Nottingham UK. He received his first degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Birmingham UK and his PhD in Communication and Neuroscience from the University of Keele UK. After postdoctoral research at Keele, he established his own laboratory at the National Institute for Medical Research in London. This was followed by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at the University of Sussex before taking a program leader position at the Medical Research Council Institute for Hearing Research in 1986. He heads a research team that uses neurophysiological, computational and neuroanatomical techniques to study the way the brain processes sound.

Ray Meddis, Ph.D. is director of the Hearing Research Laboratory at the University of Essex, England. His research has concentrated on the development of computer models of the physiology of the auditory periphery and how these can be incorporated into models of psychophysical phenomena such as pitch and auditory scene analysis. He has published extensively in this area. He is co-editor of the book Computational Models of the Auditory System (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research). His current research concerns the application of computer models to an understanding of hearing impairment. He is a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a member of the Association of Research in Otolaryngololgy.

Part I Peripheral/Cochlear Processing
1. Otoacoustic emissions theories can be tested with behavioral methods.
ENRIQUE A. LÓPEZ-POVEDA, PETER JOHANNESEN
2. Basilar membrane responses to simultaneous presentations of white noise and a single tone.
ALBERTO RECIO-SPINOSO, ENRIQUE A. LOPEZ-POVEDA
3. The influence of the helicotrema on low-frequency hearing.
TORSTEN MARQUARDT, CHRISTIAN SEJER PEDERSEN
4. Mechanisms of masking by Schroeder-phase complexes.
MAGDALENA WOJTCZAK, ANDREW J. OXENHAM
5. The frequency selectivity of gain reduction masking: Analysis using two equally-effective maskers.
SKYLER G. JENNINGS, ELIZABETH A. STRICKLAND
6. Investigating cortical descending control of the peripheral auditory system.
DARREN EDWARDS, ALAN R. PALMER
7. Exploiting transgenic mice to explore the role of the tectorial membrane in cochlear sensory processing.
GUY P. RICHARDSON, VICTORIA LUKASHKINA, ANDREI N. LUKASHKIN, IAN J. RUSSELL
8. Auditory prepulse inhibition of neuronal activity in the rat cochlear root nucleus.
RICARDO GÓMEZ-NIETO, JOSÉ ANCHIETA DE CASTRO E HORTA JÚNIOR, ORLANDO CASTELLANO, DONAL G. SINEX, DOLORES E. LÓPEZ
Part II Masking
9. FM forward masking: Implications for FM processing.
NEAL VIEMEISTER, ANDREW BYRNE, MAGDALENA WOJTCZAK, MARK STELLMACK
10. Electrophysiological correlates of intensity resolution under forward masking.
DANIEL OBERFELD
11. Neuronal measures of threshold and magnitude of forward masking in primary auditory cortex.
ANA ALVES-PINTO, SYLVIE BAUDOUX, ALAN PALMER, CHRIS J. SUMNER
12. Effect of presence of cue tone on tuning of auditory filter derived from simultaneous masking.
SHUNSUKE KIDANI, MASASHI UNOKI
Part III Spectral processing and coding
13. Tone in noise detection: Observed discrepancies in spectral integration.
NICOLAS LE GOFF, ARMIN KOHLRAUSCHB, JEROEN BREEBAARTC, STEVEN VAN DE PAR
14. Linear and nonlinear coding of sound spectra by discharge rate in neurons comprising the ascending pathway through the lateral superior olive.
DANIEL J. TOLLIN, KANTHAIAH KOKA
15. Enhancement in the marmoset inferior colliculus: neural correlates of perceptual "pop out".
PAUL NELSON, ERIC YOUNG
16. Auditory temporal integration at threshold: Evidence of a cortical origin.
BERND LÜTKENHÖNER
Part IV Pitch and Timbre
17. Spatiotemporal characteristics of cortical responses to a new dichotic pitch stimulus.
CAROLINE WITTON, ARJAN HILLEBRAND, G. BRUCE HENNING
18. A temporal code for Huggins pitch?
CHRISTOPHER J. PLACK, SUZANNE FITZPATRICK, ROBERT P. CARLYON, HEDWIG E. GOCKEL
19. Understanding pitch perception as a hierarchical process with top-down modulation.
EMILI BALAGUER-BALLESTER, NICHOLAS R. CLARK, MARTIN COATH, KATRIN KRUMBHOLZ, SUSAN DENHAM
20. The Harmonic Organization of Auditory Cortex.
XIAOQIN WANG
21. Reviewing the definition of timbre as it pertains to the perception of speech and musical sounds.
ROY D. PATTERSON, THOMAS C. WALTERS, JESSICA J. M. MONAGHAN, ETIENNE GAUDRAIN
22. Size Perception for acoustically scaled sounds of naturally pronounced and whispered words.
TOSHIO IRINO, YOSHIE AOKI, HIDEKI KAWAHARA, ROY D. PATTERSON
Part V Binaural hearing
23. Subcomponent cues in binaural unmasking.
JOHN CULLING
24. Interaural correlations between +1 and -1 on a Thurstone scale: psychometric functions and a two-parameter model.
HELGE LÜDDEMANN, HELMUT RIEDEL, ANDRE RUPP
25. Dynamic ITDs, not ILDs, underlie binaural detection of a tone in wideband noise.
MARCEL VAN DER HEIJDEN, PHILIP X. JORIS
26. Effect of reverberation on directional sensitivity of auditory neurons: Central and peripheral factors.
SASHA DEVORE, ANDREW SCHWARTZ, BERTRAND DELGUTTE
27. New experiments employing raised-sine stimuli suggest an unknown factor affects sensitivity to envelope-based ITDs for stimuli having low depths of modulation.
LESLIE R. BERNSTEIN, CONSTANTINE TRAHIOTIS
28. Modeling Physiological and Psychophysical Responses to Precedence Effect Stimuli.
JING XIA, ANDREW BRUGHERA, H. STEVEN COLBURN, BARBARA SHINN-CUNNINGHAM
29. Binaurally-coherent jitter improves neural and perceptual ITD sensitivity in normal and electric hearing.
M. GOUPELL, K. HANCOCK, P. MAJDAK, B. LABACK, B. DELGUTTE
30. Lateralization of tone complexes in noise: the role of monaural envelope processing in binaural hearing.
STEVEN VAN DE PAR, ARMIN KOHLRAUSCH, NICOLAS LE GOFF
31. Adjustment of interaural-time-difference analysis to sound level.
IDA SIVEKE, CHRISTIAN LEIBOLD, KATHARINA KAISER, BENEDIKT GROTHE, LUTZ WIEGREBE
32. The role of envelope wave form, adaptation, and attacks in binaural perception.
STEPHAN D. EWERT, MATHIAS DIETZ, MARTIN KLEIN-HENNIG, VOLKER HOHMANN
33. Short-term synaptic plasticity and adaptation contribute to the coding of timing and intensity information.
KATRINA MACLEOD, GO ASHIDA, CHRIS GLAZE AND CATHERINE CARR
34. Adaptive coding for auditory spatial cues.
PHILLIPP HEHRMANN, JULIA MAIER, NICOL HARPER, DAVID MCALPINE, MANEESH SAHANI
35. Phase shifts in monaural field potentials of the medial superior olive.
MYLES MC LAUGHLIN, MARCEL VAN DER HEIJDEN, PHILIP X. JORIS
Part VI Speech Processing and Perception
36. Representation of intelligible and distorted speech in human auditory cortex.
STEFAN UPPENKAMP, HAGEN WIERSTORF
37. Intelligibility of time-compressed speech with periodic and aperiodic insertions of silence: Evidence for endogenous brain rhythms in speech perception?
ODED GHITZA, STEVEN GREENBERG
38. The representation of the pitch of vowel sounds in ferret auditory cortex.
JAN SCHNUPP, ANDREW KING, KERRY WALKER, JENNIFER BIZLEY
39. Macroscopic and microscopic analysis of speech recognition in noise: What can be understood at which level?
THOMAS BRAND, TIM JÜRGENS, RAINER BEUTELMANN, RALPH M. MEYER, BIRGER KOLLMEIER
40. Effects of peripheral tuning on the auditory nerve's representation of speech envelope and temporal fine structure cues.
RASHA A. IBRAHIM, IAN C. BRUCE
41. Room reflections and constancy in speech-like sounds: Within-band effects.
A. J. WATKINS, A. RAIMOND, S. J. MAKIN
42. Identification of perceptual cues for consonant sounds and the influence of sensorineural hearing loss on speech perception.
FEIPENG LI, JONT B. ALLEN
Part VII Auditory Scene Analysis
43. A comparative view on the perception of mistuning: constraints of the auditory periphery.
ASTRID KLINGE, NAOYA ITATANI, GEORG M. KLUMP
44. Stability of perceptual organisation in auditory streaming.
SUSAN L. DENHAM, KINGA GYIMESI, GÁBOR STEFANICS, ISTVÁN WINKLER
45. Sequential and simultaneous auditory grouping measured with synchrony detection.
CHRISTOPHE MICHEYL, SHIHAB SHAMMA, MOUNYA ELHILALI, ANDREW J. OXENHAM
46. Rate vs. temporal code? A spatio-temporal coherence model of the cortical basis of streaming.
MOUNYA ELHILALI, LING MA, CHRISTOPHE MICHEYL, ANDREW J. OXENHAM, SHIHAB A. SHAMMA
47. Objective measures of Auditory Scene Analysis.
ROBERT P. CARLYON, SARAH K. THOMPSON, ANTJE HEINRICH, FRIEDEMANN PULVERMULLER, MATTHEW H. DAVIS, YURY SHTYROV, RHODRI CUSACK, INGRID S. JOHNSRUDE
48. Perception of concurrent sentences with harmonic or frequency-shifted voiced excitation: Performance of human listeners and of computational models based on autocorrelation.
BRIAN ROBERTS, STEPHEN D. HOLMES, CHRISTOPHER J. DARWIN, GUY J. BROWN
Part VIII Novelty detection, Attention and Learning
49. Is there stimulus-specific adaptation in the medial geniculate body of the rat?
FLORA ANTUNES, ELLEN COVEY, MANUEL S. MALMIERCA
50. Auditory streaming at the cocktail party: Simultaneous neural and behavioral studies of auditory attention.
MOUNYA ELHILALI, JUANJUAN XIANG, SHIHAB A. SHAMMA, JONATHAN Z. SIMON
51. Correlates of auditory attention and task performance in primary auditory and prefrontal cortex.
SHIHAB SHAMMA, JONATHAN FRITZ, STEPHEN DAVID, MOUNYA ELHILALI, DANIEL WINKOWSKI, PINGBO YIN
52. The implicit learning of noise: Behavioural data and computational models.
TREVOR R. AGUS, MARION BEAUVAIS, SIMON J. THORPE, DANIEL PRESSNITZER
53. Role of primary auditory cortex in acoustic orientation and approach-to-target responses.
FERNANDO R. NODAL, VICTORIA M. BAJO, ANDREW J. KING
Part IX Hearing impairment
54. Objective and behavioral estimates of cochlear response times in
normal-hearing and hearing-impaired human listeners.
OLAF STRELCYK, TORSTEN DAU
55. Why do hearing-impaired listeners fail to benefit from masker fluctuations?
JOSHUA G. W. BERNSTEIN
56. Across-fiber coding of temporal fine-structure: Effects of noise-induced hearing loss on auditory-nerve responses.
MICHAEL G. HEINZ, JAYAGANESH SWAMINATHAN, JONATHAN D. BOLEY, SUSHRUT KALE
57. Beyond the audiogram: identifying and modelling patterns of hearing deficits.
RAY MEDDIS, WENDY LECLUYSE, CHRISTINE M. TAN, MANASA R. PANDA, ROBERT T. FERRY