Abstract
A great deal is now known about the neural coding of sound by the auditory periphery. Perhaps the most crucial process for this coding is frequency selectivity or tuning. However, other processes must often be considered when describing the form of the neural code provided to the central nervous system. This paper describes one of these processes--lateral inhibition--and its role in modifying the spectral information contained in some complex sounds.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Bilsen, F. A., and Ritsma, R. J. (1970). Some parameters influencing the perceptibility of pitch, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 47, 469–476.
Green, D. M., Kidd, G. J., and Picardi, M. C. (1983). Successive versus simultaneous comparisons in auditory intensity discrimination, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 73, 639–644.
Patterson, R. D. (1976). Auditory filter shapes derived with noise stimuli, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 59, 640–654.
Ritsma, R. J., and Bilsen, F. A. (1970). Spectral regions dominant in the perception of repetition pitch, Acustica, 23, 334–339.
Shamma, Shihab A. (1985). Speech processing in the auditory system II: Lateral inhibition and the central processing of speech evoked activity in the auditory nerve, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 78, 1622–1632.
Shannon, R. V. (1976). Two-tone unmasking and suppression in a forward- masking situation, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 59, 1460–1471.
Yost, W. A., and Hill, R. (1978). Strength of the pitches associated with ripple noise, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 64, 485–492.
Yost, W. A., and Hill, R. (1979). Models of the pitch and pitch strength of ripple noise, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 66, 400–410.
Yost, W. A. (1982). The dominance region and ripple noise pitch: A test of the peripheral weighting model, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 72, 416–425.
Young, E. D., and Brownell, W. E. (1976). Responses to tones and noise of single cells in the dorsal cochlear nucleus of unanesthetized cats, J. Neurophys., 39, 282–300.
Bilsen, F.A., ten Kate, J.H., Buunen, T.J.F. and Raatgever, J. (1975). Response of single units in the cochlear nucleus of the cat to cosine noise, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 47, 469–476.
Boerger, G. (1974). Coding of repetition noise in the cochlear nucleus in the cat, in: Facts and Models in Hearing, E. Zwicker and E. Terhardt, eds., Springer-Verlag, New York, 206–212.
Shamma, S.A. (1985a). Speech processing in the auditory system, I; The representation of speech sounds in the response of the auditory nerve, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 78, 5, 1612–1621.
Fay, R.R., Yost, W.A. and Coombs, S. (1983). Psychophysics and neurophysiology of repetition noise processing in a vertebrate auditory system, Hearing Res., 12, 31–56.
Yost, W.A., Hill, R. and Perez-Falcon, T. (1978). Pitch and pitch discrimination of broad-band signals with rippled power spectra, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 63, 1166–1173.
Bucklein, R. (1981). The audibility of frequency response irregularities, J. Audio. Eng. Soc., 29, 126–131. (Translation of “Hörbarkeit von Unreglmassigkeiten in Frequenzgangen beiakustischer Übertragung” Frequenz, 16, 103–118, 1962).
Feth, L.L. and Stover, L.J. (1986). Demodulation processes in auditory perception, presented at the Workshop on Complex Sound Perception April 10–12, Sarasota, Fla.
Green, D.M., Mason, C.R. and Kidd, G., Jr. (1984). Profile analysis: Critical bands and duration, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 73, 1163–1167.
Kidd, G., Mason, C.R. and Green, D.M. (1986). Auditory profile analysis of irregular sound spectra, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 79, 1045–1053.
Wilson, J.P., Evans, E.F. and Rosenberg, J. (1974). Linearity of the cochlear nerve fibre filter responses a test for the influence of two- tone suppression, Proc. 8th Int. Cong. Acoust., Vol. 1, p. 180.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1986 Plenum Press, New York
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Yost, W.A. (1986). Processing of Complex Signals and the Role of Inhibition. In: Moore, B.C.J., Patterson, R.D. (eds) Auditory Frequency Selectivity. Nato ASI Series, vol 119. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2247-4_39
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2247-4_39
Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA
Print ISBN: 978-1-4612-9316-3
Online ISBN: 978-1-4613-2247-4
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive