Gerald Langner received a diploma in physics from the Technical University of Munich in 1971. He then worked at the Max-Plank-Institute in Göttingen and at the TU Darmstadt where he studied hearing in birds and electroreception in fish. In 1985, during a research stay in Canberra, Australia, he discovered - together with Henning Scheich - the electric sense in platypus. From 1988 to 2008 he was Professor of Neurobiology in Darmstadt with his research focus on spatial and temporal aspects of processing in the auditory system.

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Preface
1. Historical aspects of harmony
2. Sound and periodicity
3. The discovery of the missing fundamental
4. The pitch puzzle
5. The auditory time constant
6. Pathways of hearing
7. Periodicity coding in the brainstem
8. Periodicity coding in the midbrain
9. Theories of periodicity coding
10. Periodotopy
11. The neural basis of harmony
12. The oscillating brain
References
Subject index.

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