In ordinary listening environments, acoustic signals reaching the ears directly from real
sound sources are followed after a few milliseconds by early reflections arriving from nearby …

Spatial hearing, and more specifically the ability to localize sounds in space, is one of the
most studied and best understood aspects of hearing. Because there is no coding of …

The neural representation of meaningful stimulus features is thought to rely on precise
discharge characteristics of the auditory cortex. Precisely timed onset spikes putatively carry …

In reverberant environments, acoustic reflections interfere with the direct sound arriving at a
listener's ears, distorting the spatial cues for sound localization. Yet, human listeners have …

Rapid behavioral responses to unexpected events in the acoustic environment are critical
for survival. Stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA) is the process whereby some auditory …

Many studies have reported that blind people compensate for their visual deficit by
sharpening auditory processes. Here we compare the sensitivity to echo cues between blind …

The precedence effect describes the phenomenon whereby echoes are spatially fused to
the location of an initial sound by selectively suppressing the directional information of …

In mammals, localization of sound sources in azimuth depends on sensitivity to interaural
differences in sound timing (ITD) and level (ILD). Paradoxically, while typical ILD-sensitive …

The superior colliculus (SC) is a midbrain structure that plays a central role in the integration
of information from different sensory modalities and the generation of orienting responses …

Cochlear implant (CI) listeners show limits at high frequencies in tasks involving temporal
processing such as rate pitch and interaural time difference discrimination. Similar limits …