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Hearing loss : causes, prevention, and treatment / Jos J. Eggermont

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Eggermont, Jos J.
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London, United Kingdom : Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, 2017.
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Front Cover; Hearing Loss; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; I. The Basics; 1 Hearing Basics; 1.1 Hearing Sensitivity in the Animal Kingdom; 1.2 The Mammalian Middle Ear; 1.3 The Mammalian Inner Ear; 1.3.1 Basilar Membrane Mechanics; 1.3.2 The Cochlear Amplifier; 1.3.3 Mechanoelectrical Transduction; 1.3.4 Cochlear Microphonics and Summating Potentials; 1.3.5 Otoacoustic Emissions; 1.4 The Auditory Nerve; 1.4.1 Type I and Type II Nerve Fibers; 1.4.2 Type I Responses; 1.4.3 Compound Action Potentials; 1.5 Ribbon Synapses; 1.6 The Central Afferent System, 1.6.1 Parallel Processing Between Cochlea and Inferior Colliculus1.6.2 Parallel Processing Between IC and Auditory Cortex; 1.6.2.1 Splitting up the Lemniscal Pathway; 1.6.3 Parallel Processing in Auditory Cortex; 1.7 The Efferent System; 1.7.1 Effects of Olivocochlear Bundle Activity; 1.7.2 Recording From Efferent Neurons; 1.7.3 Protective Effects of Efferent Activity; 1.7.4 Measuring Efferent Effects Using OAEs; 1.7.5 Preventing Age-Related Synaptopathy?; 1.8 Sound Localization; 1.9 Summary; References; 2 Brain Plasticity and Perceptual Learning; 2.1 The External Environment, 2.1.1 Critical and Sensitive Periods2.2 Learning Paradigms; 2.2.1 Nonassociative Learning; 2.2.1.1 Habituation; 2.2.1.2 Sensitization; 2.2.2 Classical Conditioning; 2.2.3 Instrumental or Operant Conditioning; 2.2.4 Receptive Field and Tonotopic Map Plasticity in Auditory Cortex; 2.2.5 Environmental Enrichment; 2.3 Perceptual Learning; 2.3.1 Bottom-Up Learning; 2.3.2 Top-Down Learning; 2.3.3 Extending the Reverse Hierarchy Theory; 2.4 Auditory Training; 2.4.1 Adults; 2.4.2 Effects of Passive Exposure; 2.4.3 Auditory Training in Cochlear Implant Patients; 2.4.4 Auditory Learning in Children, 2.5 AV Training2.6 Music Training; 2.7 Training by Playing Action Video Games; 2.8 Summary; References; 3 Multisensory Processing; 3.1 Multimodal Auditory Cortical Areas; 3.1.1 Animal Data; 3.1.2 Human Findings; 3.1.3 Hearing Loss Affects Multisensory Representation in Animals; 3.1.4 Human Findings Following Sensory Deprivation; 3.2 AV Interaction in Humans; 3.2.1 The McGurk Effect; 3.2.2 Lip Reading; 3.2.3 Audio-visual Interaction in Development and Aging; 3.2.3.1 Children; 3.2.3.2 The Elderly; 3.2.4 Role of Audio-visual Interaction in Cochlear Implant Use, and 3.3 Auditory-Somatosensory Interaction3.3.1 The Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus; 3.3.2 The Inferior Colliculus; 3.3.3 The Auditory Thalamus and Cortex; 3.4 Summary; References; II. The Problem; 4 Hearing Problems; 4.1 The Various Consequences of Noise Exposure; 4.1.1 Structural Changes in the Auditory Periphery; 4.1.2 Central Effects of Permanent Threshold Shifts; 4.1.3 Central Effects of Temporary Threshold Shifts; 4.1.4 Central Effects of Noise Exposure Without Threshold Shifts; 4.2 Sound Localization Problems; 4.2.1 Findings in Normal Hearing Humans; 4.2.2 Hearing Loss and Sound Localization
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ISBN
9780128093498 (electronic bk.)
0128093498 (electronic bk.)
9780128053980 (print)
0128053984
Note
Includes index.
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