Auditory Sensing Systems: Overview

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This second edition of the Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience includes updates to the first edition’s entries based on new findings in the field, and publishes several new reviews on recent topics of interest and modelling techniques for the study of auditory sensing systems. We thank the authors for their willingness to contribute to this section and thus provide a rich scientific resource on auditory neuroscience, for young and senior researchers alike.

Auditory sensing, or the sense of hearing, is concerned with detecting and extracting information from pressure waves in the surrounding medium, typically air or water. Since waves are generated by movements or collisions, this primarily tells the perceiver about things happening in the environment. In addition, since pressure waves can be reflected, absorbed, and refracted by other objects, these pressure waves also contain a great deal of contextual information about the environment and the objects in...