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Cooperativity and synchrony in the auditory periphery
Christopher Bergevin1 1Department of Physics & Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Canada The auditory periphery is comprised of many disparate elements actively working together to allow for high sensitivity and selectivity. For example, the eardrum appears to move a fraction of the atomic diameter of hydrogen in response to incident sounds at threshold. To achieve such sensitivity, …
AMT 1.0: The Auditory Modeling Toolbox for reproducible research
Piotr Majdak1, Clara Hollomey1, Robert Baumgartner11Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria The auditory modeling toolbox (AMT) is a Matlab/Octave toolbox for the development and application of auditory computational models with a particular focus on binaural hearing. The AMT aims at reproducing model predictions and at providing user-friendly access, allowing students and researchers …
Simulation of the impact of simulated cochlear synaptopathy on temporal envelope perception
Mengchao Zhang1, Jacques Grange1, John Culling11School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom Cochlear synaptopathy is a selective loss of auditory nerve fibers with low spontaneous rates (SR) after noise exposure or aging, which is thought to contribute to hidden hearing deficits, especially the ability to process suprathreshold temporal envelopes (TEs). However, evidence of cochlear …
Modeling the effect of age on concurrent vowel scores for shorter durations
Harshavardhan Settibhaktini1, Michael G. Heinz2, Ananthakrishna Chintanpalli11Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani Campus, Rajasthan 333031, India.2Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2028, USA. Listeners hear the speech sounds with varying durations in a real-world environment. A …
Decoding the auditory nerve for the differential diagnosis of sensorineural pathologies
Jacques Grange1, John Culling1 1School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom Pathologies underlying sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) cannot yet all be differentially diagnosed. We are developing means of pathology discrimination with an advanced SNHL simulator. The physiologically inspired model of the auditory periphery (MAP, Meddis et al., 1986~2018) simulates stimulus encoding at the auditory nerve …