new book

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I would like to use this list to announce the publication of a book which
should be of interest to hearing researchers from a number of disciplines. The
book consists of a number of refereed articles, which were presented at a
meeting held at the Royal Society (London) in December 1991. The authors,
whose research interests range from hair-cell biology through neural
physiology and psychophysics to music perception, were all invited speakers
at the conference, and the quality of the contributions reflects this.
The book is published in the U.K. by Oxford University Press, who also have
offices in New York. Furthermore, it's a bargain at 35 pounds, and I assume
that the U.S. price is also fairly cheap. Further details, including a table
of contents, follow....

Bob Carlyon



        PROCESSING OF COMPLEX SOUNDS BY THE AUDITORY SYSTEM
        Edited by R.P. Carlyon, C.J. Darwin, and I.J. Russell
        Oxford University Press, ISBN: 0 19 852272 X.
                         Price 35 pounds



                        TABLE OF CONTENTS


E F EVANS
  Auditory processing of complex sounds: an overview

M A RUGGERO, L ROBLES, N C RICH & A RECIO
  Basilar membrane responses to two-tone and broadband stimuli

I J RUSSELL & M KOSSL
  Sensory transduction and frequency selectivity in the basal turn of
  the guinea-pig cochlea.

B A WRIGHT & D MCFADDEN
  Evidence that adaptation of suppression cannot account for auditory
  enhancement or enhanced forward masking.

J W HALL & J H GROSE
  Masking release for gap detection.

B C J MOORE & M J SHAILER
  Modulation discrimination interference and auditory grouping.

R P CARLYON
  The psychophysics of concurrent sound segregation

Q SUMMERFIELD & J F CULLING
  Auditory segregation of competing voices: absence of effects of FM and
  AM coherence.

S ROSEN
  Temporal information in speech: acoustic, auditory and linguistic
  aspects.

A KOHLRAUSCH & A J M HOUTSMA
  Pitch related to spectral edges of broadband signals.

S MCADAMS & J-C CUNIBILE
  Perception of timbral analogies.

D DEUTSCH
  Some new pitch paradoxes and their implications.

X WANG & M B SACHS
  Coding of envelope modulation in the auditory nerve and anteroventral
  cochlear nucleus.

L H CARNEY
  Modelling the sensitivity of cells in the anteroventral cochlear
  nucleus to spatiotemporal discharge patterns.

E D YOUNG, G A SPIROU, J J RICE & H F VOIGT
  Neural organization and responses to complex stimuli in the dorsal
  cochlear nucleus.

A R PALMER, A REES & D CAIRD
  Binaural masking and sensitivity to interaural delay in the inferior
  colliculus.

N SUGA
  Philosophy and stimulus design for neuroethology of complex-sound
  processing.