Neural Processing of Acoustic and Electric Interaural Time Differences in Normal-Hearing Gerbils

• Published in: The Journal of neuroscience Vol. 38; no. 31; pp. 6949 - 6966
• Main Author: Vollmer, Maike
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Society for Neuroscience 01.08.2018
• Subjects: Acoustic noise; Acoustic properties; Acoustic Stimulation; Acoustics; Afferent Pathways - physiology; Animals; Auditory Perception - physiology; Brain; Circuits; Cochlea; Cochlear implants; Cochlear Nucleus - physiology; Coding; Deafness; Deprivation; Discrimination; Electric Stimulation; Electrical stimuli; Female; Gerbillinae - physiology; Hearing loss; Implants; Inferior Colliculi - physiology; Inferior colliculus; Information processing; Lemniscus (lateral); Male; Neural coding; Neurons; Neurons - physiology; Noise; Sensitivity; Sound Localization - physiology; Speech perception; Thresholds; Time Factors; Timing; Tuning; interaural time difference; lateral lemniscus; inferior colliculus; binaural hearing; cochlear implant; temporal processing

Bilateral cochlear implants (CIs) provide benefits for speech perception in noise and directional hearing, but users typically show poor sensitivity to interaural time differences (ITDs). Possible explanations for this deficit are deafness-induced degradations in neural ITD sensitivity, between-ear...