Session I. Cochlear mechanisms A. - The Responses of Hair Cells to Low Frequency Tones and Their Relationship to the Extracellular Receptor Potentials and Sound Pressure Level in the Guinea Pig Cochlea. - Some Comparative Aspects of a Cochlear Mechanism. - The Parasympathetic Innervation of the Inner Ear and the Problem of Cochlear Efferents: Enzyme and Autoradiographic Studies. - Adaptation and Dynamic Response Occurring at Hair Cell Afferent Fiber Synapse. - Phase Versus Frequency Plots from Caiman Primary Auditory Fibres: Is There a Travelling Wave?. - Session II. Cochlear Mechanisms B. - The Dynamics of pO2-Changes in the Perilymphatic Perfusate of the Guinea Pig Cochlea Depending on the Metabolism. - Analytical Studies on Biochemistry and Physiology of Perilymph (Guinea Pig). - Distribution of Microphonic Potentials in the Four Turns of the Guinea Pig Cochlea. - Session III. Coding in the Auditory Nerve and Cochlear Nucleus. - The Dynamic Range Problem: Place and Time Coding at the Level of Cochlear Nerve and Nucleus. - Coding of Complex Sounds in the Auditory Nervous System. - On Predicting the Response of Auditory Nerve Fibers to Complex Tones. - Effects of Masking Noise on the Representation of Vowel Spectra in the Auditory Nerve. - Neuronal Circuits in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus. - The Internal Organization of the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus. - Session IV. Central Auditory Mechanisms A. - Functional Organization of the Inferior Colliculus. - Integration and Segregation of Input to the Cat Inferior Colliculus. - Some Facets of the Organization of the Principal Division of the Cat Medial Geniculate Body. - Functional Organization of the Medial Geniculate Body Studied by Simultaneous Recordings of Single Unit Pairs. - Possibilities of Recording Multiunit Activity in the AuditoryPathway. - Poststimulatory Effects in the Medial Geniculate Body of Guinea Pigs. - How Biosonar Information Is Represented in the Bat Cerebral Cortex. - Three-Dimensional Study of Evoked Field Potentials in the Auditory Cortex of the Cat. - Differential Diagnosis of Hearing Disorders-Clinical Findings Contributing to Information Processing in the Auditory Pathway. - Session V. Central Auditory Mechanisms B. - Binaural Interaction in the Cat Inferior Colliculus: Comparison of the Physiological Data with a Computer Simulated Model. - Coding Properties of the Different Nuclei of the Cat's Medial Geniculate Body. - Interaural Delay Sensitive Units in the MGB of the Cat. - Temporal Information in the Medial Geniculate Body. - Some Investigation of Acoustical Evoked Potentials from Peripheral and Central Structures of the Auditory Pathway in Rabbits. - Session VI. Auditory Localization. - Anatomical-Behavioral Analyses of Hindbrain Sound Localization Mechanisms. - Effects of Unilateral Ablation of Anteroventral Cochlear Nucleus on Localization of Sound in Space. - Binaural Interaction Models and Mechanisms. - Psychophysical and Neurophysiological Data on the Sound Source Perception. - Session VII. Neural Coding of Speech and Complex Stimuli. - Information Processing in Neuronal Populations of the Human Brain during Learning of Verbal Signals. - A Comparison of the Responses Evoked by Artificial Stimuli and Vocalizations in the Inferior Colliculus of Squirrel Monkeys. - Acoustic Properties of Central Auditory Pathway Neurons during Phonation in the Squirrel Monkey. - Selectivity of Auditory Neurons for Vowels and Consonants in the Forebrain of the Mynah Bird. - Some Aspects of Functional Organization of the Auditory Neostriatum (Field L) in the Guinea Fowl. - 14-C-Deoxyglucose Labeling of theAuditory Neostriatum in Young and Adult Guinea Fowl. - Integration of Voco-Auditory Centers in Song Birds. - Response Properties and Spike Waveforms of Single Units in the Torus Semicircularis of the Grassfrog (Rana Temporaria) as Related to Recording Site. - Coding of Amplitude-Modulated Sounds in the Midbrain Auditory Region of the Frog. - Session VIII. Deprivation and Developmental Studies. - Effects of Early Auditory Stimulation on Cortical Centers. - Effects of Acoustic Deprivation on Morphological Parameters of Development of Auditory Neurons in Rat. - Behavioral and Anatomical Studies of Central Auditory Development. - Input-Dependent 2-Deoxy-D-Glucose Uptake in the Central Auditory System of Rana Temporaria. - Plastic Changes in the Inferior Colliculus Following Cochlear Destruction. - Developmental Changes of Auditory Evoked Responses in Normal and Kanamycin Treated Rats. - Session IX. Auditory Prostheses Physiological Background. - Physiological Background of Hearing Prostheses. - Electrical Stimulation of the Human Cochlea Psychophysical and Speech Studies. - Preliminary Speech Perception Results through a Cochlear Prosthesis. - Tactile Aid for the Deaf; Search of a Code Allowing Somesthetic Processing of Acoustic Messages. - Participants. Language: English