An important topic in contemporary auditory science is supra-threshold hearing. Difficulty
hearing at conversational speech levels in background noise has long been recognized as …

Aging is accompanied by the deterioration of hearing that complicates our understanding of
speech, especially in noisy environments. This deficit is partially caused by the loss of hair …

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 …

Current models for neural coding of vowels are typically based on linear descriptions of the
auditory periphery, and fail at high sound levels and in background noise. These models …

Auditory processing depends upon inhibitory signaling by interneurons, even at its earliest
stages in the ventral cochlear nucleus (VCN). Remarkably, to date only a single subtype of …

Noise exposure is one of the most common causes of hearing loss and peripheral damage
to the auditory system. A growing literature suggests that the auditory system can …

Despite the presence of large endbulb inputs, the spherical bushy cells (SBCs) of the rostral
anteroventral cochlear nucleus do not function as simple auditory relays. We used the good …

Signal processing in the auditory brainstem is based on an interaction of neuronal excitation
and inhibition. To date, we have incomplete knowledge of how the dynamic interplay of both …

The acoustic environment contains biologically relevant information on timescales from
microseconds to tens of seconds. The auditory brainstem nuclei process this temporal …

Spherical and globular bushy cells of the AVCN receive huge auditory nerve endings
specialized for high fidelity neural transmission in response to acoustic events. Recent …