Main description:

'Auditory temporal processing' determines our understanding of speech, our appreciation of music, our ability to localize a sound source, and even to listen to a person in a noisy crowd.

Sound is dynamic and as such has temporal and spectral content. In disorders such as auditory neuropathy and MS, problems can occur with these temporal representations of sound, leading to a mismatch between auditory sensitivity and speech discrimination. In dyslexia, specific language impairment, and auditory processing disorders, similar problems occur early in life and set up additional cognitive speech processing problems. It has also been found that in disorders such as autism,
schizophrenia and epilepsy, temporal processing deficits can occur.

This book reviews comprehensively the mechanisms for temporal processing in the auditory system, looking at how these underlie specific clinical disorders, with implications for their treatment. Written by a prolific researcher in auditory neuroscience, this book is valuable for auditory neuroscientists, audiologist, neurologists, and speech language pathologists.

Contents:

1. Introduction ; 2. Stimulus onsets and echoes ; 3. Adaptation and forward masking ; 4. Gap-detection and voice-onset-time ; 5. Temporal modulation transfer functions ; 6. Modeling temporal processing ; 7. Correlation, coincidence and synchrony ; 8. Periodicity pitch ; 9. Binaural hearing and sound localization ; 10. Stream segregation and cocktail parties ; 11. Maturation and aging ; 12. Hearing loss and temporal processing ; 13. Auditory neuropathy and multiple sclerosis ; 14. Dyslexia, specific language impairment, and auditory processing disorder ; 15. General neurological disorders with temporal processing deficits ; 16. Multimodal interactions and auditory temporal processing