Richard Fay

• Loyola University Chicago

Part of the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research book series (SHAR, volume 73). This volume provides an up-to-date reference on the developments and novel ideas in the field of binaural hearing. The primary readership for the volume are specialists in the diverse fields such as psychoacoustics, neuroscience, engineering, psychology, audiology,...

No PDF available ABSTRACT Combined, we have known Peter Narins for well over 120 years. We take great pleasure in honoring an “old” and greatly valued colleague and friend. We start by pointing out that none of us have done research with Peter, but that each off us knows, admires, and greatly values his work. For over 40 years, Peter's interdiscipl...

This volume provides comprehensive, integrative, and comparative perspectives on birdsong and underscores the importance of birdsong research to behavioral and systems neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and biomedical research. Scaling the Levels of Birdsong Analysis Jon T. Sakata and Sarah C. Woolley Neural Circuits Underlying Vocal Learning in...

This volume provides contemporary discussions on new developments in aging research. It serves as an important update on the current state of research on the aging auditory system. Listening to All Voices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Hearing in Aging Karen S. Helfer and Edward L. Bartlett Genetic and Molecular Aspects of the Aging...

This book provides a comparative perspective on the topic of electroreception and reviews some of the fundamental insights gained from studies of electrosensory and electromotor systems to understand how the nervous system extracts biologically relevant information from the natural environment A Brief History of Electrogenesis and Electroreception...

Auditory behavior, perception, and cognition are all shaped by information from other sensory systems. This volume examines this multi-sensory view of auditory function at levels of analysis ranging from the single neuron to neuroimaging in human clinical populations. Visual Influence on Auditory Perception Adrian K.C. Lee and Mark T. Wallace Cue C...

The Present, Past, and Future of Timbre Research Kai Siedenburg, Charalampos Saitis, and Stephen McAdams The Perceptual Representation of Timbre Stephen McAdams Timbre Recognition and Sound Source Identification Trevor R. Agus, Clara Suied, and Daniel Pressnitzer Memory for Timbre Kai Siedenburg and Daniel Müllensiefen The Semantics of Timbre C...

The plainfin midshipman fish, Porichthys notatus, is a nocturnal marine teleost that uses social acoustic signals for communication during the breeding season. Nesting type I males produce multiharmonic advertisement calls by contracting their swim bladder sonic muscles to attract females for courtship and spawning while subsequently attracting cuc...

This volume presents a set of essays that discuss the development and plasticity of the vertebrate auditory system. The topic is one that has been considered before in the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research (volume 9 in 1998, and volume 23 in 2004) but the field has grown substantially and it is appropriate to bring previous material up to date...

Primate Hearing and Communication provides unique insights into the evolution of hearing and communication in primates, including humans. · Introduction to Primate Hearing and Communication Marissa A. Ramsier and Rolf M. Quam · The Primate Peripheral Auditory System and the Evolution of Primate Hearing SirpaNummela · Primate Audition: Reception, Pe...

The Auditory System at the Cocktail Party is a rather whimsical title that points to the very serious challenge faced by listeners in most everyday environments: how to hear out sounds of interest amid a cacophony of competing sounds. The volume presents the mechanisms for bottom-up object formation and top-down object selection that the auditory s...

This volume will cover a variety of topics, including child language development; hearing loss; listening in noise; statistical learning; poverty; auditory processing disorder; cochlear neuropathy; attention; and aging. It will appeal broadly to auditory scientists—and in fact, any scientist interested in the biology of human communication and lear...

The evolution of vertebrate hearing is of considerable interest in the hearing community. However, there has never been a volume that has focused on the paleontological evidence for the evolution of hearing and the ear, especially from the perspective of some of the leading paleontologists and evolutionary biologists in the world. Thus, this volume...

Translational Research is the interface between basic science and human clinical application, including the entire process from animal studies to human clinical trials (phases I, II, and III). Translational Research moves promising basic science results from the laboratory to bedside application. Yet, this transition is often the least-defined, lea...

Insect Hearing provides a broadly based view of the functions, mechanisms, and evolution of hearing in insects. With a single exception, the chapters focus on problems of hearing and their solutions, rather than being focused on particular taxa. The exception, hearing in Drosophila, serves as a case study of one of the most important model systems...

In Bat Bioacoustics we briefly review the history of biosonar and echolocation (reminding readers of the 1995 Hearing by Bats). Adaptations for biosonar make one of the most fascinating stories in neuroethology. The auditory systems, biosonar signals, and their central role in the biology of bats are front and center in this story. Echolocation by...

Vertebrate Sound Production and Acoustic Communication serves both as a tutorial introduction for newcomers and a springboard for further research for all scientists interested in understanding animal acoustic signals. • Vertebrate Vocal Production: An Introductory Overview by W. Tecumseh Fitch and Roderick A. Suthers • Fish Sound Production: An E...

A fundamental goal of neuroscience is to understand how hormones modulate neural circuits and behavior. Hearing and Hormones reviews the growing literature showing that hormones can regulate auditory physiology and anatomy, and the perception of acoustic signals across a broad range of animal taxa, including humans. · Hearing and Hormones: Paying...

Auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) have become popular for estimating hearing thresholds and audiograms. What is the utility of these measurements? How do AEP audiograms compare with behavioral audiograms? In general, AEP measurements for fishes and marine mammals often underestimate behavioral thresholds, but comparisons are especially complicated...

Researchers often perform hearing studies on fish in small tanks. The acoustic field in such a tank is considerably different from the acoustic field that occurs in the animal's natural environment. The significance of these differences is magnified by the nature of the fish's auditory system where either acoustic pressure (a scalar), acoustic part...

In this paper, we discuss the issues encountered when trying to perform hearing experiments in water-filled tanks that are several meters in lateral extent, typically large in terms of the size of the animals under study but not necessarily so with respect to the wavelengths of interest. This paper presents measurements of pressure and particle mot...

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Chapters cannot be read stand-alone. Please see complete SpringerBrief at: http:// link. springer. com/ book/ 10. 1007/ 978-3-319-06659-2.

Chapters cannot be read stand-alone. Please see complete SpringerBrief at: http:// link. springer. com/ book/ 10. 1007/ 978-3-319-06659-2.

Chapters cannot be read stand-alone. Please see complete SpringerBrief at: http:// link. springer. com/ book/ 10. 1007/ 978-3-319-06659-2.

Chapters cannot be read stand-alone. Please see complete SpringerBrief at: http:// link. springer. com/ book/ 10. 1007/ 978-3-319-06659-2.

Chapters cannot be read stand-alone. Please see complete SpringerBrief at: http:// link. springer. com/ book/ 10. 1007/ 978-3-319-06659-2.

We investigated the roles of the swim bladder and the lateral line system in sound localization behavior by the plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus). Reproductive female midshipman underwent either surgical deflation of the swim bladder or cryoablation of the lateral line and were then tested in a monopolar sound source localization task....

This chapter presents the history of the origins of the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research (SHAR) and provides basic facts about the series and the philosophy of the series editors in its evolution. A brief background into the series editors is provided to give context to the founding of SHAR. Statistics are provided about the series.

Perspectives on Auditory Research is the 50th volume in the 21-year history of the Springer Handbook of Auditory Research (SHAR). SHAR was originally conceived as having perhaps eight volumes on the fundamental and more mature topics of auditory neuroscience. The vision in developing SHAR was to ask authors to discuss the major concepts of the auth...

Previous work on auditory processing in Opsanus tau has focused on the descending octaval nucleus; however, the magnocellular octaval nucleus receives similar inputs from the otolithic endorgans. The purpose of this study was to assess whether cells in any of the three subdivisions of the magnocellular nucleus respond to auditory frequencies and en...

The middle ear plays a vital role in the sense and sensitivity of hearing. Of the various characteristics that distinguish mammals from other vertebrates, several pertain specifically to the middle-ear system, such as the presence of three middle-ear bones and the four-layer composite structure of the tympanic membrane. The Middle Ear attempts to e...

fince the early 1990s, there has been a re-birth of studies that test the neural correlates of auditory cognition with a unique emphasis on the use of awake, behaving animals as models. Continuing today, how and where in the brain neural correlates of auditory cognition are formed is an intensive and active area of research. Importantly, our unders...

The Silver Medal is presented to individuals, without age limitation, for contributions to the advancement of science, engineering, or human welfare through the application of acoustic principles, or through research accomplishment in acoustics.

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Georg von Békésy was one of the first comparative auditory researchers. He not only studied basilar membrane (BM) movements in a range of mammals of widely different sizes, he also worked on the chicken basilar papilla and the frog middle ear. We show that, in mammals, at least, his data do not differ from those that could be collected using modern...

Turtles, like other amphibious animals, face a trade-off between terrestrial and aquatic hearing. We used laser vibrometry and auditory brainstem responses to measure their sensitivity to vibration stimuli and to airborne versus underwater sound. Turtles are most sensitive to sound underwater, and their sensitivity depends on the large middle ear,...

The lake sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, belongs to one of the few extant nonteleost ray-finned fishes and diverged from the main vertebrate lineage about 250 million years ago. The aim of this study was to use this species to explore the peripheral neural coding strategies for sound direction and compare these results to modern bony fishes (teleos...

For all animals that hear, the detection of a sound source depends on, among other things, the amount or level of the potentially interfering sounds (maskers) that exist simultaneously with the sound to be detected (“signal”). The potentially interfering sounds are generically referred to as “noise,” whereas the sound of interest to be detected is...

The last two decades of the twentieth century have witnessed quantal advances in our knowledge of the biological processes that result in hearing. These have come about from the application of contemporary molecular biology, physiology, and imaging techniques that have been made available to all of biology in combination with discoveries in the dom...

Human Auditory Development deals with what is currently known about the development of hearing and the auditory system in humans. This volume provides an important contemporary reference on hearing development and leads to new ways of thinking about hearing in children and about remediation for children with hearing loss. Much of the material in th...

Tinnitus is a prevalent hearing disease in humans, affecting 15% of the population. At present there is no cure for tinnitus, and treatment options are limited. Recognizing the significance of tinnitus to hearing, as well as it serving as a window into the basic science of understanding of the hearing process, Tinnitus provides a broad overview of...

Cochlear implants are currently the standard treatment for profound sensorineural hearing loss. In the last decade, advances in auditory science and technology have not only greatly expanded the utility of electric stimulation to other parts of the auditory nervous system in addition to the cochlea, but have also demonstrated drastic changes in the...

Exposure to loud noise continues to be one of the largest causes of hearing loss in the adult population, already affecting some 15 percent of Americans between the ages of 20 and 69. There have been a number of discoveries and advances that have increased our understanding of the mechanisms of Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL). These advances have...

Synaptic mechanisms are the groundwork for all auditory processing. Understanding them requires knowledge of the microphysiology of synapses, cellular biophysics, and receptor pharmacology, as well as an appreciation for what unique jobs auditory synapses must carry out. Synaptic Mechanisms in the Auditory System provides a basic reference for stud...

Sound-source localization behavior was studied in the plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus) by making use of the naturally occurring phonotaxis response of gravid females to playback of the male's advertisement call. The observations took place outdoors in a circular concrete tank. A dipole sound projector was placed at the center of the ta...

The behavioral capacity for directional hearing and the discrimination of sound sources at different locations has been demonstrated in a number of fish species. Evidence suggests that all fishes can detect the acoustic particle motion component of sound using their ears. Few experiments, however, provide conclusive evidence that fishes can find th...

This article reviews Music Perception (Springer Handbook of Auditory Research) by Mari Riess Jones, Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper

The masking effects of white and amplitude comodulated noise were studied with respect to simple signal detection and sound source determination in goldfish. A stimulus generalization method was used to determine the signal-to-noise ratio required to completely determine the signal's characteristics. It was found that the S∕N required for this dete...

Although a number of previous behavioral studies have demonstrated that elasmobranch fishes can detect and are attracted to low frequency sounds, few physiological studies have characterized the auditory response properties of the elasmobranch inner ear to such low frequency sounds. In this study, we examined the directional and frequency responses...

Fish have three otolithic endorgans that may be involved in auditory processing: saccule, lagena, and utricle. One or more of those endorgans may serve a vestibular (tilt) function. In general, vestibular inputs are distributed more ventrally than auditory inputs in the medulla of teleost fishes, but there are zones of overlap with the more dorsal...

A series of experiments was undertaken to investigate methods of sound source localization by fish. In these experiments, positive phonotaxic responses of gravid female plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus) to low?frequency, playback tones (80?90 Hz) were studied as they approached sound sources. The sound fields for simple (monopole) and r...

In this paper we reconsider the designation of fishes as being either "hearing specialists" or "hearing generalists," and recommend dropping the terms. We argue that this classification is only vaguely and variously defined in the literature, and that these terms often have unclear and different meaning to different investigators. Furthermore, we m...

The biology of auditory and vestibular efferent systems encompasses a wide range of issues where exploration requires knowledge of basic anatomy, electrophysiology, and pharmacology of the inner ear. These topics lead into discussions of development and evolution of efferent systems. The functional significance of these systems is highlighted by an...

The topic of loudness is of considerable concern both in and outside of research laboratories. Most people have developed an opinion about some aspect of loudness, and many complain about the loudness of background sounds in their daily environments and their impacts on quality of life. Moreover, such sounds interfere with the ability to hear usefu...

In goldfish and other otophysans, the Weberian ossicles mechanically link the saccule of the inner ear to the anterior swimbladder chamber (ASB). These structures are correlated with enhanced sound-pressure sensitivity and greater sensitivity at high frequencies (600-2000 Hz). However, surprisingly little is known about the potential impact of the...

Acipenser fulvescens, the lake sturgeon, belongs to one of the few extant non-teleost ray-finned (bony) fishes. The sturgeons (family Acipenseridae) have a phylogenetic history that dates back about 250 million years. The study reported here is the first investigation of peripheral coding strategies for spectral analysis in the auditory system in a...

The aim of this study was to use plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus) as a general model to explore how fishes localize an underwater sound source in the relatively simple geometry of a monopole sound field. The robust phonotaxic responses displayed by gravid females toward a monopole sound projector (J-9) broadcasting a low-frequency (90...

Binaural computations involving the convergence of excitatory and inhibitory inputs have been proposed to explain directional sharpening and frequency tuning documented in the brainstem of a teleost fish, the oyster toadfish (Opsanus tau). To assess the presence of inhibitory neurons in the ascending auditory circuit, we used a monoclonal antibody...

Localization of a dipole sound source was studied in female plainfin midshipman fish (Porichthys notatus). Experiments were conducted and videotaped in a 3.65-m-diameter tank using a dipole underwater speaker system placed near the center of the tank. The sound was a 90-Hz tone, approximately the fundamental frequency of the male's advertisement ca...

This volume is to bring together noted scientists who study presbycusis from the perspective of complementary disciplines, for a review of the current state of knowledge on the aging auditory system. Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is one of the top three most common chronic health conditions affecting individuals aged 65 years and older. The high...

This volume presents an overview of a relatively new field of psychoacoustic and hearing research that involves perception of musical sound patterns. The material is considered in a set of chapters that reflect the current status of scientific scholarship related to music perception. Each chapter aims at synthesizing a range of findings associated...

The perception of two simultaneous tones was investigated in goldfish using classical respiratory conditioning and a stimulus generalization paradigm. Pairs of tones were used to make up a mixture of 150 Hz and a higher harmonic or a mistuned harmonic. Fish were conditioned to the two-tone mixture and then tested for generalization to several pure...

Comparisons of left and right auditory input are required for sound source localization in most terrestrial vertebrates. Previous physiological and neuroanatomical studies have indicated that binaural convergence is present in the ascending auditory system of the toadfish. In this study, we introduce a new technique, otolith tipping, to reversibly...

Previous behavioral studies have shown that elasmobranch fishes can be attracted to low-frequency sound sources (< 80 Hz) in their natural habitat, but relatively few studies have characterized the auditory response properties of the elasmobranch inner ear to low-frequency sounds. Here, we examine the response properties of evoked saccular potentia...

No PDF available ABSTRACT Coding mechanisms for spectral analysis and sound source location were investigated in Acipenser fulvescens, the lake sturgeon. A. fulvescens belongs to one of the few extant nonteleost ray‐finned fishes, with a phylogenetic history that dates back about 200 million years. A shaker system was used to simulate the particle...

Sound source localization of the plainfin midshipman fish ( Porichthys notatus) was studied using the phonotactic response of gravid females to synthetic male advertisement calls. Playback experiments were conducted in a 3.65‐m‐diameter outdoor concrete tank at the UC Bodega Marine Laboratory in Bodega Bay, CA using a J‐9 transducer placed near the...

Underwater soundscapes have probably played an important role in the adaptation of ears and auditory systems of fishes throughout evolutionary time, and for all species. These sounds probably contain important information about the environment and about most objects and events that confront the receiving fish so that appropriate behavior is possibl...

There is no standard set of equipment and techniques for the study of hearing and sound production in fishes. The most important issues for both types of study is the use of hydrophone with calibration traceable to a standard, and a linear recording device (i.e., without automatic gain control) with sufficient bandwidth. For hearing studies, acoust...

I first met Sam Ridgway in 1967 or 1968 before he had become "the dolphin doctor." He was a visiting scientist at the E.G. Wever's Laboratory at Princeton, NJ and I was a new Ph.D. student. He had already done the classic experiments on the dolphin ear with Wever, McCormick, and Palin (1970, 1971, 1972, and 1974), never to be repeated in the same w...

This study is a continuation of a long-term investigation of the auditory circuit in the oyster toadfish, Opsanus tau. Input from the auditory periphery projects to the ipsilateral descending octaval nucleus (DON). Ipsilateral and contralateral DONs project to the auditory midbrain, where a previous study indicated that both frequency tuning and di...

Sound source localization of the midshipman fish ( Porichthys notatus) was studied using the phonotactic response of gravid females to synthetic advertisement calls. Playback experiments were conducted in a 12‐ft‐diameter outdoor concrete tank at the Bodega Marine Laboratory using a J‐9 transducer placed at the center of the tank. The sound field i...

The field of fish bioacoustics was essentially inaugurated in the 1960s with two meetings and their subsequent published proceedings, which were organized and edited by Professor William N. Tavolga. These two volumes, Marine BioAcoustics (Tavolga 1964) and Marine Bio-Acoustics II (Tavolga 1967), define the scope and content of the field of marine b...

Auditory Perception of Sound Sources covers higher-level auditory processes that are perceptual processes. The chapters describe how humans and other animals perceive the sounds that they receive from the many sound sources existing in the world. This book will provide an overview of areas of current research involved with understanding how sound-s...

The past decade has brought great advances in our understanding of the mechanisms underlying auditory pathologies. Molecular biology and genetics have primarily contributed to this enhanced understanding, which in turn has driven the design of novel rational therapeutic interventions. Auditory Trauma, Protection and Repair presents recent developme...

Sounds that are actually produced by healthy ears allow researchers and clinicians to study hearing and cochlear function noninvasively in both animals and humans. Active Processes and Otoacoustic Emissions in Hearing presents the first serious review of the biological basis of these otoacoustic emissions. Active processes, such as those in hair ce...

The study of how fish make and respond to sound has important implications for communication, physiology, behavior, and commercial techniques. Fish Bioacoustics, a new definitive volume on fish auditory systems, will interest investigators in both basic research of fish bioacoustics as well as investigators in applied aspects of fisheries and resou...

The sensory hair cells in the inner ear and vestibular system convert mechanical stimuli, sound and motion into neural activity that is responsible for the sensations of hearing, motion and head position. In mammals, the loss of hair cells from acoustic overstimulation, ototoxic drugs and aging is irreversible, leading to a permanent loss of functi...

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Since the appearance of Bregman’s (1990) influential book Auditory Scene Analysis, research on both human and nonhuman animals has been influenced to seriously consider sound sources and their perceptions. The new human psychoacoustic work has come together in this volume under the phrase “sound source perception” because the kernel of Bregman’s le...

Interest in fish sound production and hearing dates back to the writings of Aristotle (384–322 BCE) and Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE), both of whom noted not only that fish make sounds, but also speculated that fish must be able to hear despite their not having apparent ears. The fact that fish could hear was first demonstrated with the work of G. H....

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Vertebrate Hair Cells provides a current overview of the mechanosensory receptor cells of the vertebrate inner ear. Each chapter is written by experimentalists active in exploring a particular set of questions in an aspect of hair cell function, including development, transduction, and synaptic transmission. Experimental approaches described includ...

General understanding of the sense of hearing in nonhuman species probably arises from human experiences, introspections, and experiments on human listeners. Whenever we hear a sound, a little attention to it usually reveals that its source exists somewhere in the space around us, and our ability to point toward the source is reasonably good in mos...

During the last 20 years, considerable advances have been made in the development of cochlear implants for the profoundly deaf. It has been shown that multiple-channel devices are superior to single-channel systems. Strategies in which several electrodes (six to eight) correspond to fixed-filter outputs, or the extraction of six to eight spectral m...

The basic concepts of speech production and analysis have been described. Speech is an acoustic signal produced by air pressure changes originating from the vocal production system s. The anatomical, physiological, and functional aspects of this process have been discussed from a quantitative perspective. With a description of various models of spe...

Interest in anthropogenic sound in the marine environment has been directed at concerns about the effects of sound on marine mammals. However, fish make up a far larger and more diverse portion of the oceans than do marine mammals, and they hold considerable economic importance internationally. This has led to a growing interest in the effect of an...

In order to develop acoustic exposure criteria for fish and marine turtles based on scientific evidence, an ASA Standards Working Group was formed with a membership that includes basic scientists expert on fish and turtle bioacoustics, physical acousticians with special expertise in marine bioacoustics, and several individuals with expertise on eff...

Hearing and Sound Communication in Amphibians is a compendium of the latest research on acoustic communication in these highly vocal vertebrates. The chapters are written by experts currently investigating the physiology and behavior of amphibians both in the laboratory and in the field. This integrated approach guides each chapter and provides a n...

'Vertebrate Hair Cells' provides a current overview of the mechanosensory receptor cells of the vertebrate inner ear. Each chapter is written by experimentalists active in exploring a particular aspect of hair cell function, including development, mechanoelectrical transduction, and synaptic transmission. Hair cell research has entered an exciting...