Tutor Dr. Jan Schnupp,
Tel
(2)72513
E-mail
jan.schnupp@physiol.ox.ac.uk
Unless
otherwise agreed, the tutorial will be held in room “Besse 7” of St Peter’s college.
What determines the pitch of a sound? Which
structures and mechanisms of the central auditory system are thought to be
responsible for pitch perception?
Note: Do not write more than 7 pages! Five well written pages should be
more than enough. If you want me to read your essay before the tutorial (which
might be in your interest, because it would allow me to tailor the tutorial to
your needs) then it would be great if you could let me have them at least 24
hours in advance, but don't worry too much if your essay doesn't get finished
in time. Do make sure you've done a fair bit of reading before the tutorial
though. This is meant to be your chance to ask questions, so while you are
doing your reading, make notes of anything that is unclear, or highlight
passages in the literature you don't understand.
My preferred mode of receiving essays is by e-mail attachment, but if
you don't word process your essay then you can pidge them either to Physiology
or
Papers marked with a an asterisk (*) are a good place to start.
* Cariani, P (1999). "Temporal coding of periodicity pitch
in the auditory system: an overview," Neural Plast 6(4), 147-72
* Frisina, RD (2001). "Subcortical neural coding mechanisms
for auditory temporal processing," Hear Res 158(1-2), 1-27
Langner, G (1992). "Periodicity coding in the auditory
system," Hear Res 60, 115-42
Langner, G & Schreiner, CE (1988). "Periodicity coding
in the inferior colliculus of the cat. I. Neuronal mechanisms," J
Neurophysiol 60(6), 1799-822
* Moore BCJ (2003) "Coding of sounds in the auditory system
and its relevance to signal processing and coding in cochlear implants",
Otol&Neurootol. 24:243-54
* Moore BCJ (1996) “Frequency and Pitch perception”, Chapter 3 of
“Human Psychophysics”, Yost, Popper and Fay (Eds) Springer N.Y.
* Chapters 1, 4 & 5 of “Pitch”
(2005) Plack, Oxenham, Popper &
Fay (Eds), Springer N.Y.
Schreiner, CE & Langner, G (1988). "Periodicity coding
in the inferior colliculus of the cat. II. Topographical organization," J
Neurophysiol 60(6), 1823-40
Lu, T, Liang, L & Wang, X (2001). "Temporal and rate
representations of time-varying signals in the auditory cortex of awake
primates," Nat Neurosci 4(11), 1131-8
* Palmer, AR (1995). "Neural signal processing." In Hearing,
edited by B. J. Moore (Academic Press, N. Y.), pp. 75-121.
Schulze, H, Hess, A, Ohl, FW, et al. (2002). "Superposition
of horseshoe-like periodicity and linear tonotopic maps in auditory cortex of
the Mongolian gerbil," Eur J Neurosci 15(6), 1077-84
Hartman W. M. (1996) “Pitch, periodicity and auditory
organization”, J Acoust Soc Am 100(6):3491-502
Wiegrebe, L&Winter, IM (2001). "Temporal representation
of iterated rippled noise as a function of delay and sound level in the ventral
cochlear nucleus," J Neurophysiol 85(3), 1206-19
Note: for your convenience, I have put electronic
copies of some of these papers at http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~jan/tutePapers.
For copyright reasons this address is
accessible only when you are logged onto the University Network.
Most of the papers in this URL are in Adobe
Acrobat (PDF) format, but some are in "djvu" format and will require
a DJVU viewer plugin which you can download free of charge from "lizardtech"