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The sense of hearing plays an important role in navigating the environment, avoiding predators, finding mates, and communicating with others. To quickly and accurately process the tiny rapid eardrum vibrations that are elicited by sound, mammals and birds evolved a complex network of brain pathways, each of which is specialized to extract certain sound features. This book is a compilation of authoritative chapters, written by leading auditory neuroscientists,summarizing our current knowledge about the anatomy, physiology, and function of the major auditory brainstem pathways. Special emphasis…mehr

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The sense of hearing plays an important role in navigating the environment, avoiding predators, finding mates, and communicating with others. To quickly and accurately process the tiny rapid eardrum vibrations that are elicited by sound, mammals and birds evolved a complex network of brain pathways, each of which is specialized to extract certain sound features. This book is a compilation of authoritative chapters, written by leading auditory neuroscientists,summarizing our current knowledge about the anatomy, physiology, and function of the major auditory brainstem pathways. Special emphasis is given to recent progress in understanding the processes and underlying mechanisms by which these pathways are modulated during development and aging. Also included iscoverage of pathological conditions, including hearing loss and the perception of phantom sounds.
Autorenporträt
Karl Kandler is Professor of Neurobiology, Otolaryngology, and Bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was born in Germany where he studied Biology at the University of Regensburg and the Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen, from which he graduated 1993 with a PhD. From 1993 to 1997, he performed postdoctoral research with Lawrence C. Katz at Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University. Since 1998, Dr. Kandler is a faculty in the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh investigating the development and plasticity of auditory circuits in the mammalian brain. From 2007 to 2017, he established and directed the auditory research group in the department of otolaryngology at this institution. In addition, Karl Kandler is a faculty member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and an adjunct Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University.