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Grothe, Benedikt, Michael Pecka, and David McAlpine. "Mechanisms of Sound Localization in Mammals." Physiological Reviews 90, no. 3 (July 2010): 983–1012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/physrev.00026.2009.

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The ability to determine the location of a sound source is fundamental to hearing. However, auditory space is not represented in any systematic manner on the basilar membrane of the cochlea, the sensory surface of the receptor organ for hearing. Understanding the means by which sensitivity to spatial cues is computed in central neurons can therefore contribute to our understanding of the basic nature of complex neural representations. We review recent evidence concerning the nature of the neural representation of auditory space in the mammalian brain and elaborate on recent advances in the understanding of mammalian subcortical processing of auditory spatial cues that challenge the “textbook” version of sound localization, in particular brain mechanisms contributing to binaural hearing.

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Joris, Philip X., and Marcel van der Heijden. "Early Binaural Hearing: The Comparison of Temporal Differences at the Two Ears." Annual Review of Neuroscience 42, no. 1 (July 8, 2019): 433–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-neuro-080317-061925.

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Many mammals, including humans, are exquisitely sensitive to tiny time differences between sounds at the two ears. These interaural time differences are an important source of information for sound detection, for sound localization in space, and for environmental awareness. Two brainstem circuits are involved in the initial temporal comparisons between the ears, centered on the medial and lateral superior olive. Cells in these nuclei, as well as their afferents, display a large number of striking physiological and anatomical specializations to enable submillisecond sensitivity. As such, they provide an important model system to study temporal processing in the central nervous system. We review the progress that has been made in characterizing these primary binaural circuits as well as the variety of mechanisms that have been proposed to underlie their function.

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Grothe, Benedikt, Ellen Covey, and John H. Casseday. "Medial Superior Olive of the Big Brown Bat: Neuronal Responses to Pure Tones, Amplitude Modulations, and Pulse Trains." Journal of Neurophysiology 86, no. 5 (November 1, 2001): 2219–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.2001.86.5.2219.

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The structure and function of the medial superior olive (MSO) is highly variable among mammals. In species with large heads and low-frequency hearing, MSO is adapted for processing interaural time differences. In some species with small heads and high-frequency hearing, the MSO is greatly reduced in size; in others, including those echolocating bats that have been examined, the MSO is large. Moreover, the MSO of bats appears to have undergone different functional specializations depending on the type of echolocation call used. The echolocation call of the mustached bat contains a prominent CF component, and its MSO is predominantly monaural; the free-tailed bat uses pure frequency-modulated calls, and its MSO is predominantly binaural. To further explore the relation of call structure to MSO properties, we recorded extracellularly from 97 single neurons in the MSO of the big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus, a species whose echolocation call is intermediate between that of the mustached bat and the free-tailed bat. The best frequencies of MSO neurons in the big brown bat ranged from 11 to 79 kHz, spanning most of the audible range. Half of the neurons were monaural, excited by sound at the contralateral ear, while the other half showed evidence of binaural interactions, supporting the idea that the binaural characteristics of MSO neurons in the big brown bat are midway between those of the mustached bat and the free-tailed bat. Within the population of binaural neurons, the majority were excited by sound at the contralateral ear and inhibited by sound at the ipsilateral ear; only 21% were excited by sound at either ear. Discharge patterns were characterized as transient on (37%), primary-like (33%), or transient off (23%). When presented with sinusoidally amplitude modulated tones, most neurons had low-pass filter characteristics with cutoffs between 100 and 300 Hz modulation frequency. For comparison with the sinusoidally modulated sounds, we presented trains of tone pips in which the pulse duration and interstimulus interval were varied. The results of these experiments indicated that it is not the modulation frequency but rather the interstimulus interval that determines the low-pass filter characteristics of MSO neurons.

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Tait Sanchez, Jason, Yuan Wang, Edwin W. Rubel, and Andres Barria. "Development of Glutamatergic Synaptic Transmission in Binaural Auditory Neurons." Journal of Neurophysiology 104, no. 3 (September 2010): 1774–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00468.2010.

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Glutamatergic synaptic transmission is essential for binaural auditory processing in birds and mammals. Using whole cell voltage clamp recordings, we characterized the development of synaptic ionotropic glutamate receptor (iGluR) function from auditory neurons in the chick nucleus laminaris (NL), the first nucleus responsible for binaural processing. We show that synaptic transmission is mediated by AMPA- and N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA)-type glutamate receptors (AMPA-R and NMDA-R, respectively) when hearing is first emerging and dendritic morphology is being established across different sound frequency regions. Puff application of glutamate agonists at embryonic day 9 (E9) revealed that both iGluRs are functionally present prior to synapse formation (E10). Between E11 and E19, the amplitude of isolated AMPA-R currents from high-frequency (HF) neurons increased 14-fold. A significant increase in the frequency of spontaneous events is also observed. Additionally, AMPA-R currents become faster and more rectifying, suggesting developmental changes in subunit composition. These developmental changes were similar in all tonotopic regions examined. However, mid- and low-frequency neurons exhibit fewer spontaneous events and evoked AMPA-R currents are smaller, slower, and less rectifying than currents from age-matched HF neurons. The amplitude of isolated NMDA-R currents from HF neurons also increased, reaching a peak at E17 and declining sharply by E19, a trend consistent across tonotopic regions. With age, NMDA-R kinetics become significantly faster, indicating a developmental switch in receptor subunit composition. Dramatic increases in the amplitude and speed of glutamatergic synaptic transmission occurs in NL during embryonic development. These changes are first seen in HF neurons suggesting regulation by peripheral inputs and may be necessary to enhance coincidence detection of binaural auditory information.

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Römer, Heiner. "Directional hearing in insects: biophysical, physiological and ecological challenges." Journal of Experimental Biology 223, no. 14 (July 15, 2020): jeb203224. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.203224.

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ABSTRACTSound localisation is a fundamental attribute of the way that animals perceive their external world. It enables them to locate mates or prey, determine the direction from which a predator is approaching and initiate adaptive behaviours. Evidence from different biological disciplines that has accumulated over the last two decades indicates how small insects with body sizes much smaller than the wavelength of the sound of interest achieve a localisation performance that is similar to that of mammals. This Review starts by describing the distinction between tympanal ears (as in grasshoppers, crickets, cicadas, moths or mantids) and ﬂagellar ears (specifically antennae in mosquitoes and fruit flies). The challenges faced by insects when receiving directional cues differ depending on whether they have tympanal or flagellar years, because the latter respond to the particle velocity component (a vector quantity) of the sound ﬁeld, whereas the former respond to the pressure component (a scalar quantity). Insects have evolved sophisticated biophysical solutions to meet these challenges, which provide binaural cues for directional hearing. The physiological challenge is to reliably encode these cues in the neuronal activity of the afferent auditory system, a non-trivial problem in particular for those insect systems composed of only few nerve cells which exhibit a considerable amount of intrinsic and extrinsic response variability. To provide an integrative view of directional hearing, I complement the description of these biophysical and physiological solutions by presenting findings on localisation in real-world situations, including evidence for localisation in the vertical plane.

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Grothe, Benedikt, Thomas J. Park, and Gerd Schuller. "Medial Superior Olive in the Free-Tailed Bat: Response to Pure Tones and Amplitude-Modulated Tones." Journal of Neurophysiology 77, no. 3 (March 1, 1997): 1553–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.1997.77.3.1553.

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Grothe, Benedikt, Thomas J. Park, and Gerd Schuller. Medial superior olive in the free-tailed bat: response to pure tones and amplitude-modulated tones. J. Neurophysiol. 77: 1553–1565, 1997. In mammals with good low-frequency hearing and a moderate to large interear distance, neurons in the medial superior olive (MSO) are sensitive to interaural time differences (ITDs). Most small mammals, however, do not hear low frequencies and do not experience significant ITDs, suggesting that their MSOs participate in functions other than ITD coding. In one bat species, the mustached bat, the MSO is a functionally monaural nucleus, acting as a low-pass filter for the rate of sinusoidally amplitude-modulated (SAM) stimuli. We investigated whether the more typical binaural MSO of the Mexican free-tailed bat also acts as an SAM filter. We recorded from 60 MSO neurons with their best frequencies covering the entire audiogram of this bat. The majority revealed bilateral excitation and indirect evidence for inhibition (EI/EI; 55%). The remaining neurons exhibited reduced inputs, mostly lacking ipsilateral inputs (28% I/EI; 12% O/EI; 5% EI/O). Most neurons (64%) responded with a phasic discharge to pure tones; the remaining neurons exhibited an additional sustained component. For stimulation with pure tones, two thirds of the cells exhibited monotonic rate-level functions for ipsilateral, contralateral, or binaural stimulation. In contrast, nearly all neurons exhibited nonmonotonic rate-level functions when tested with SAM stimuli. Eighty-eight percent of the neurons responded with a phase-locked discharge to SAM stimuli at low modulation rates and exhibited low-pass filter characteristics in the modulation transfer function (MTF) for ipsilateral, contralateral, and binaural stimulation. The MTF for ipsilateral stimulation usually did not match that for contralateral stimulation. Introducing interaural intensity differences (IIDs) changed the MTF in unpredictable ways. We also found that responses to SAMs depended on the carrier frequency. In some neurons we measured the time course of the ipsilaterally and contralaterally evoked inhibition by presenting brief frequency-modulated sweeps at different ITDs. The duration and timing of inhibition could be related to the SAM cutoff for binaural stimulation. We conclude that the response of the MSO in the free-tailed bat is created by a complex interaction of inhibition and excitation. The different time constants of inputs create a low-pass filter for SAM stimuli. However, the MSO output is an integrated response to the temporal structure of a stimulus as well as its azimuthal position, i.e., IIDs. There are no in vivo results concerning filter characteristics in a “classical” MSO, but our data confirm an earlier speculation about this interdependence based on data accessed from a gerbil brain slice preparation.

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Efrati, Adi, and Yoram Gutfreund. "Early life exposure to noise alters the representation of auditory localization cues in the auditory space map of the barn owl." Journal of Neurophysiology 105, no. 5 (May 2011): 2522–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00078.2011.

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The auditory space map in the optic tectum (OT) (also known as superior colliculus in mammals) relies on the tuning of neurons to auditory localization cues that correspond to specific sound source locations. This study investigates the effects of early auditory experiences on the neural representation of binaural auditory localization cues. Young barn owls were raised in continuous omnidirectional broadband noise from before hearing onset to the age of ∼65 days. Data from these birds were compared with data from age-matched control owls and from normal adult owls (>200 days). In noise-reared owls, the tuning of tectal neurons for interaural level differences and interaural time differences was broader than in control owls. Moreover, in neurons from noise-reared owls, the interaural level differences tuning was biased towards sounds louder in the contralateral ear. A similar bias appeared, but to a much lesser extent, in age-matched control owls and was absent in adult owls. To follow the recovery process from noise exposure, we continued to survey the neural representations in the OT for an extended period of up to several months after removal of the noise. We report that all the noise-rearing effects tended to recover gradually following exposure to a normal acoustic environment. The results suggest that deprivation from experiencing normal acoustic localization cues disrupts the maturation of the auditory space map in the OT.

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Hafter, Ervin R. "Binaural hearing." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 91, no. 4 (April 1992): 2413. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.403219.

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Bredahl Greiner, S[solidus in circle]ren. "BINAURAL HEARING INSTRUMENT." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 133, no. 3 (2013): 1854. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4795090.

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Lindemann, Eric. "Binaural hearing aid." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 99, no. 6 (1996): 3283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.414934.

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Constantinides, Helena. "Binaural hearing and auditory training." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424068.

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Luo, Zhengwei. "Beamforming for binaural hearing aids." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28170.

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Binaural hearing aids making use of a wireless link are becoming a trend in hearing-aids design. However, it is still not clear how much gain can be obtained in complex real-life acoustic environments when using binaural hearing aids compared to monaural ones, and whether binaural hearing aids are worth the additional effort and complexity. This thesis aims to provide some answers to this question. In particular, it will compare the performance of different microphone array configurations, study the effects of using different head models for fixed beamforming design, assess the effect of head model mismatch and direction of arrival information mismatch, investigate methods to preserve the binaural cues, evaluate combinations of fixed binaural beamforming followed by other noise reduction algorithms, and assess the performance of the different algorithms using both classical beamforming metrics and objective measures related to speech quality and intelligibility.

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Shanley, Robyn Allen Rose. "Binaural Interference in Normal Hearing Children." [Greenville, N.C.] : East Carolina University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/1867.

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Alomari, Hala M. "Binaural hearing with bone conduction stimulation." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2014. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/370832/.

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It has been argued that apparent masking-level differences (MLDs) in users of bilateral bone-anchored hearing aids (BAHAs) provide evidence of binaural hearing. However, there is considerably less acoustical isolation between the two ears with bone conduction (BC) compared to air conduction (AC). The apparent MLDs may have arisen, at least in part, from inter-cranial interference between signals arising from the two BAHAs (i.e. monaural effect). That might also explain some of the inter-individual variation in both the magnitude and the direction of the MLDs reported in BAHA users. The present study was composed of three experimental stages with the main aim to investigate the influence of interference in normal hearing participants by measuring masking level difference in AC and BC to explore the conditions contributing to the reported variation. An additional aim was to investigate the performance of a newly designed BC transducer; the balanced electromagnetic separation transducer (BEST), for bone conduction research as well as more general clinical use. Stage 1 evaluated the performance of the BEST in comparison to the clinically used RadioEar B71 in a series of acoustical (sensitivity and harmonic distortion) and psychoacoustical (hearing thresholds and vibrotactile thresholds) measurements. The results from these studies led to the use of the BEST in the second and third stages because they produced significantly lower harmonic distortion at low frequencies (mainly 250 Hz). The psychoacoustic measurements alluded to the need to use different calibration values with the BESTs. Stage 2 was a preliminary investigation comparing the MLDs with standard bilateral configurations between the AC and BC in nine normal-hearing participants. Signals were pure tones at one of three frequencies (250, 500, 1000 Hz), presented via AC or BC. Broadband noise (100- 5000 Hz) was always presented via AC at 70 dB SPL. Thresholds were estimated using a three-alternative forced choice procedure combined with an adaptive staircase. Transducers used were insert earphones and the BESTs for BC testing. The results from this stage showed a statistical significant difference between AC and BC MLDs at 250, 500 and 1000 Hz (mean difference is 9.4, 6.6 and 3.5 dB respectively). Evidence of the change in the MLDs direction is observed at 250 Hz in three participants. Stage 3 consisted of the investigation of inter-cranial interference in eighteen normal hearing participants. This stage was composed of three main measurements. The first measurement compared the AC and BC MLDs at three test frequencies. The second measurement evaluated the transcranial attenuation (TA). The third measurement was the novel feature of the study it evaluated the monaural interference effect through the measurement of the diotic and dichotic conditions in one test ear. A significant discrepancy was found between the AC and BC MLDs of approximately 6, 1.5 and 2.5 dB at 500, 1000 and 2000 Hz, respectively. The TA was found to be lower than 10 dB at the three test frequencies. Measurable MTLDs were reported in some of the participants, high inter-subject variability was observed in the direction of the MTLDs. The BEST can reliably replace the B71 in clinical setup. Formal adjustment of the reference equivalent threshold force levels is advised. Binaural hearing was achieved through bilateral BC stimulation to a lesser magnitude compared to AC MLDs in normal hearing participants. The discrepancy between the AC and BC MLDs was reduced with the increase in the frequency. The discrepancy can partially be explained by the cross-talk of the signal in one ear. The results showed that in some participants the magnitude of the monaural tone level difference was similar to the magnitude of the BC MLD. Further investigation is recommended to investigate the association of the transcranial delay with the discrepancy between the AC and BC MLDs. This investigation also recommends the investigation of the AC and BC MLDs in patients fitted with bilateral BAHAs.

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Sollini, Joseph A. "Behavioural and neural correlates of binaural hearing." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2013. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13739/.

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The work in this thesis involves two separate projects. The first project involves the behavioural measurement of auditory thresholds in the ferret (Mustela Putorius). A new behavioural paradigm using a sound localisation task was developed which produces reliable psychophysical detection thresholds in animals. Initial attempts to use the task failed and after further investigation improvements were made. These changes produced a task that successfully produced reliably low thresholds. Different methods of testing, and the number of experimental trials required, here then explored systemically. The refined data collection method was then used to investigate frequency resolution in the ferret. These data demonstrated that the method was suitable for measuring perceptual frequency selectivity. It revealed that the auditory filters of ferrets are broader than several other species. In some cases this was also broader than neural estimates would suggest. The second project involved the measurement of neural data in the Guinea Pig (Cavia porecellus). More specifically the project aimed to test the ability of the primary auditory cortex (AI) to integrate high frequency spatial cues. Two experiments were required to elucidate these data. The first experiment demonstrated a relationship between frequency and space, though these data proved noisy. A second experiment was conducted, focussing on improving the quality of the data this allowed for a more quantitative approach to be applied. The results highlighted that though AI neurons are responsive over a broad frequency range, inhibitory binaural interactions integrate spatial information over a smaller range. Binaural interactions were only strong when sounds in either ear were closely matched in frequency. In contrast, excitatory binaural interactions did not generally depend on the interaural frequency difference. These findings place important constraints on the across frequency integration of binaural level cues.

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Welker, Daniel Patrick. "A real-time binaural adaptive hearing aid." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12043.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-103).
by Daniel Patrick Welker.
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Desloge, Joseph Gilles. "Fixed-filter multimicrophone hearing aids with binaural output." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11670.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-161).
by Joseph Gilles Desloge.
M.S.

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Rubiano, Vivian Victoria, and Vivian Victoria Rubiano. "Estimating Nonorganic Hearing Thresholds Using Binaural Auditory Stimuli." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621140.

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The Stenger Principle describes the observation that when two tones of the same frequency are presented simultaneously, a single tone is perceived only in the ear in which the tone is louder. This principle underlies the Stenger Test, which is used to identify the presence of unilateral nonorganic hearing loss (NOHL). Minimum contralateral interference levels (MCILs), which can be used to estimate true hearing thresholds in individuals with unilateral NOHL, are also based on this principle. In this study, the Stenger Principle is used to examine MCILs and the correspondence of the MCILs to true hearing thresholds in 16 adults with normal hearing. In Part I of the study, subjects were asked to feign a unilateral hearing loss. Average MCILs were 12.5, 15.1, and 13.5 dB HL for 1.0, 2.0, and 4.0 kHz, respectively. These were obtained with nearly equal interaural stimulus levels. The average difference between MCIL and true hearing threshold was 7.6, 9.7, and 8.9 dB, respectively. In Part II of this study, subjects were asked to make lateralization judgments for simultaneously presented tones with varying interaural intensity differences. Individual subject ratings were compared to MCILs obtained in Part I. Although most subjects showed the Stenger Effect with a midline percept of the two tones, variability between subjects existed. In some cases the Stenger Effect was not apparent until the tonal image was pulled nearly to the "poor" ear. Because of the potential differences in response bias (a client may show the Stenger Effect with a small shift in the tonal signal away from the "good" ear or may require the tonal signal to be fully lateralized to the "poor" ear), clinicians cannot predict exact hearing thresholds. Rather, it is useful to describe a range within which the true threshold will be. The 90% ranges (5th and 95th percentiles) calculated in this study were approximately 1 and 17 dB. That is, the MCILs for the majority of the subjects were within ~ 1 and 17 dB of true hearing thresholds.

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Vaughan, Alison Anne. "Is binaural hearing accessible using bone conduction stimulation?" Thesis, University of Southampton, 2017. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/412644/.

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It may be assumed that people who rely on hearing via bone conduction (BC) are unable to benefit from the advantages of listening with two ears. Subtle differences in sound perceived at each ear enable a listener to enjoy improved hearing in certain situations, compared to listening with one ear only. When listening via BC, the two ears lack independence compared to air conduction (AC). However, a small number of studies provide evidence to the contrary, indicating that some people may have sufficient independence between the ears to enable at least some benefit. The low independence of the ears seen with BC is due to sound vibrations crossing over the skull and stimulating the opposite cochlea. The effect of BC vibrations inter-ear independence is likely to be influenced by differences in skull characteristics between individuals. It may be that some skulls afford sufficiently large inter-ear independence for the individual to benefit from listening with two ears. A set of three experiments were carried out, culminating in an ambitious experiment that has not, to the author's knowledge been previously reported. The main aim was to investigate inter-subject variation in inter-ear independence. The ability to take advantage of listening with both ears via BC was explored by measuring individual skull characteristics and lateralisation ability, using normal hearing subjects. But first, the behaviour of a recently designed bone vibrator (BV), the balanced electromagnetic separation transducer (BEST), was compared to the B71 with the aim of commenting on the suitably of the BEST for research and clinical use. Experiment 1 indicated that the BEST is suitable for research and clinical use and was used for Experiments 2 and 3. Experiment 2 showed high inter-subject variations in inter-ear independence and lateralisation ability. This indicates the possibility of sufficient inter-ear independence to allow people to benefit from listening with both ears via BC, although not as strongly as with AC. Experiment 3 repeated Experiment 2 using a refined method and with the addition of a deeper investigation in factors that influence inter-ear independence.

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Ellaham, Nicolas. "Binaural Speech Intelligibility Prediction and Nonlinear Hearing Devices." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31713.

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A new objective measurement system to predict speech intelligibility in binaural listening conditions is proposed for use with nonlinear hearing devices. Digital processing inside such devices often involves nonlinear operations such as clipping, compression, and noise reduction algorithms. Standard objective measures such as the Articulation Indeix (AI), the Speech Intelligibility Index (SII) and the Speech Transmission Index (STI) have been developed for monaural listening. Binaural extensions of these measures have been proposed in the literature, essentially consisting of a binaural pre-processing stage followed by monaural intelligibility prediction using the better ear or the binaurally enhanced signal. In this work, a three-stage extension of the binaural SII approach is proposed that deals with nonlinear acoustic input signals. The reference-based model operates as follows: (1) a stage to deal with nonlinear processing based on a signal-separation model to recover estimates of speech, noise and distortion signals at the output of hearing devices; (2) a binaural processing stage using the Equalization-Cancellation (EC) model; and (3) a stage for intelligibility prediction using the SII or the short-time Extended SII (ESII). Multiple versions of the model have been developed and tested for use with hearing devices. A software simulator is used to perform hearing-device processing under various binaural listening conditions. Details of the modeling procedure are discussed along with an experimental framework for collecting subjective intelligibility data. In the absence of hearing-device processing, the model successfully predicts speech intelligibility in all spatial configurations considered. Varying levels of success were obtained using two simple distortion modeling approaches with different distortion mechanisms. Future refinements to the model are proposed based on the results discussed in this work.

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Books on the topic "Binaural hearing in mammals"

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Litovsky, Ruth Y., Matthew J. Goupell, Richard R. Fay, and Arthur N. Popper, eds. Binaural Hearing. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57100-9.

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Blauert, Jens. The Technology of Binaural Listening. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.

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Fay, Richard R., and Arthur N. Popper, eds. Comparative Hearing: Mammals. New York, NY: Springer New York, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2700-7.

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Xiang, Ning. A mobile universal measuring system for the binaural-acoustic modelling-technique. Dortmund: Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz, 1991.

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Dajani, Hilmi R. The influence of low frequency magnetic fields on the nervous system with particular reference to binaural hearing. Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 1991.

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Bunse, Markus Hermann Alois. Die Bedeutung des binauralen Horens für die Empfindung von Lautheit und Rauhigkeit. Dusseldorf: VDI Verlag, 1999.

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Konstantinov, Alekseĭ Ivanovich. Zvuki v zhizni zvereĭ. Leningrad: Izd-vo Leningradskogo universiteta, 1985.

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NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Mechanics of Hearing (1988 University of Keele). Cochlear mechanisms: Structure, function, and models. New York: Plenum Press, 1989.

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United States. Congress. Senate. National Ocean Policy Study. Marine mammal protection legislation: Hearing before the National Ocean Policy Study of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, July 23, 1992. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 1993.

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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment. Marine Mammal Protection Act authorizations: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, second session on H.R. 4189 ... May 10, 1988. Washington: U.S. G.P.O, 1988.

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Gourevitch, George. "Binaural Hearing in Land Mammals." In Proceedings in Life Sciences, 226–46. New York, NY: Springer US, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4738-8_9.

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Zwicker, Eberhard, and Hugo Fastl. "Binaural Hearing." In Psychoacoustics, 293–313. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09562-1_15.

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Fastl, Hugo, and Eberhard Zwicker. "Binaural Hearing." In Psychoacoustics, 293–313. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68888-4_15.

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Gelfand, Stanley A. "Binaural and spatial hearing." In Hearing, 321–56. Sixth edition. | Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2018.: CRC Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315154718-13.

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Ricketts, Todd Andrew, and Alan Kan. "Binaural Hearing with Devices." In Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, 385–417. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57100-9_13.

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Fay, Richard R. "Comparative Auditory Research." In Comparative Hearing: Mammals, 1–17. New York, NY: Springer New York, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2700-7_1.

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Long, Glenis R. "Psychoacoustics." In Comparative Hearing: Mammals, 18–56. New York, NY: Springer New York, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2700-7_2.

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Brown, Charles H. "Sound Localization." In Comparative Hearing: Mammals, 57–96. New York, NY: Springer New York, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2700-7_3.

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Stebbins, William C., and David B. Moody. "How Monkeys Hear the World: Auditory Perception in Nonhuman Primates." In Comparative Hearing: Mammals, 97–133. New York, NY: Springer New York, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2700-7_4.

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Echteler, Stephen M., Richard R. Fay, and Arthur N. Popper. "Structure of the Mammalian Cochlea." In Comparative Hearing: Mammals, 134–71. New York, NY: Springer New York, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2700-7_5.

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Conference papers on the topic "Binaural hearing in mammals"

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Brayda, Luca, Federico Traverso, Luca Giuliani, Francesco Diotalevi, Stefania Repetto, Sara Sansalone, Andrea Trucco, and Giulio Sandini. "Spatially selective binaural hearing aids." In the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2806207.

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Keyrouz, Fakheredine. "Humanoid Binaural Hearing: Adaptive Approach." In Biomedical Engineering / Robotics Applications. Calgary,AB,Canada: ACTAPRESS, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.2316/p.2014.818-027.

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Hohmann, Volker, Johannes Nix, Giso Grimm, and Thomas Wittkop. "Binaural noise reduction for hearing AIDS." In Proceedings of ICASSP '02. IEEE, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icassp.2002.5745534.

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Hohmann, Nix, Grimm, and Wittkop. "Binaural noise reduction for hearing aids." In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP-02. IEEE, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icassp.2002.1004795.

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Blauert, Jens, and Jonas Braasch. "Applications of models of binaural hearing." In ICA 2013 Montreal. ASA, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4801000.

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Ivancevic, B., K. Jambrosic, and A. Petosic. "Binaural hearing computer models in multisource environments." In 2005 18th International Conference on Applied Electromagnetics and Communications. IEEE, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icecom.2005.205016.

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Chandra, R., and A. J. Johansson. "Miniaturized antennas for link between binaural hearing aids." In 2010 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2010). IEEE, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iembs.2010.5626200.

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Park, Paul K. J., Hyunsurk Ryu, Jun Haeng Lee, Chang-Woo Shin, Kyoo Bin Lee, Jooyeon Woo, Jun-Seok Kim, Byung Chang Kang, Shih-Chii Liu, and Tobi Delbruck. "Fast neuromorphic sound localization for binaural hearing aids." In 2013 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/embc.2013.6610739.

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Xiao, Jinjun, Zhi-Quan Luo, Ivo Merks, and Tao Zhang. "A robust adaptive binaural beamformer for hearing devices." In 2017 51st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers. IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/acssc.2017.8335691.

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Amini, Jamal, Richard C. Hendriks, Richard Heusdens, Meng Guo, and Jesper Jensen. "Operational Rate-Constrained Beamforming in Binaural Hearing Aids." In 2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/eusipco.2018.8553403.

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Reports on the topic "Binaural hearing in mammals"

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Nachtigall, Paul E. Marine Mammals: Hearing and Echolocation at Coconut Island. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada531199.

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Nachtigall, Paul E. Marine Mammals: Hearing and Echolocation at Coconut Island. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada573672.

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Reichmuth Kastak, Colleen, David Kastak, James J. Finneran, and Dorian S. Houser. Standardization of Electrophysiological Measures of Hearing in Marine Mammals. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, September 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada455626.

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