ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2015
Auditory distance coding in rabbit midbrain neurons and human perception: monaural amplitude modulation depth as a cue.
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- Asymmetric visual capture of virtual sound sources in the distance dimension.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- Responses to diotic tone-in-noise stimuli in the inferior colliculus: stimulus envelope and neural fluctuation cues.Hearing research · 2021Article
- Midbrain-Level Neural Correlates of Behavioral Tone-in-Noise Detection: Dependence on Energy and Envelope Cues.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021Article
- Amplitude modulation encoding in the auditory cortex: comparisons between the primary and middle lateral belt regions.Journal of neurophysiology · 2020Article
- Amplitude modulation transfer functions reveal opposing populations within both the inferior colliculus and medial geniculate body.Journal of neurophysiology · 2020Article
- Neural fluctuation cues for simultaneous notched-noise masking and profile-analysis tasks: Insights from model midbrain responses.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 2020Article
- Cortical auditory distance representation based on direct-to-reverberant energy ratio.NeuroImage · 2020Article
- Paired measurements of cochlear function and hair cell count in Dutch-belted rabbits with noise-induced hearing loss.Hearing research · 2020Article
- Supra-Threshold Hearing and Fluctuation Profiles: Implications for Sensorineural and Hidden Hearing Loss.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2018Review
- Neural coding of time-varying interaural time differences and time-varying amplitude in the inferior colliculus.Journal of neurophysiology · 2017Article
- Auditory distance perception in humans: a review of cues, development, neuronal bases, and effects of sensory loss.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2016Review
- Speech Coding in the Midbrain: Effects of Sensorineural Hearing Loss.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2016Article
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Mechanisms underlying sound source distance localization are not well understood. Here we tested the hypothesis that a novel mechanism can create monaural distance sensitivity: a combination of auditory midbrain neurons' sensitivity to amplitude modulation (AM) depth and distance-dependent loss of AM in reverberation. We used virtual auditory space (VAS) methods for sounds at various distances in anechoic and reverberant environments. Stimulus level was constant across distance. With increasing modulation depth, some rabbit inferior colliculus neurons increased firing rates whereas others decreased. These neurons exhibited monotonic relationships between firing rates and distance for monaurally presented noise when two conditions were met: (1) the sound had AM, and (2) the environment was reverberant. The firing rates as a function of distance remained approximately constant without AM in either environment and, in an anechoic condition, even with AM. We corroborated this finding by reproducing the distance sensitivity using a neural model. We also conducted a human psychophysical study using similar methods. Normal-hearing listeners reported perceived distance in response to monaural 1 octave 4 kHz noise source sounds presented at distances of 35-200 cm. We found parallels between the rabbit neural and human responses. In both, sound distance could be discriminated only if the monaural sound in reverberation had AM. These observations support the hypothesis. When other cues are available (e.g., in binaural hearing), how much the auditory system actually uses the AM as a distance cue remains to be determined.
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