1. Grantham DW (1995). PDF  Spatial hearing and related phenomena.  In BCJ Moore (ed.),  Hearing.  Academic: London, pp. 297-345.

2. Trussell LO (1999). PDF  Physiological mechanisms for coding timing in auditory neurons.  Ann. Rev. Physiol. 61:477-496.

3. Grothe B (2003). PDF  New roles for synaptic inhibition in sound localization. Nature Rev Neurosci. 4:540-50.

4. Joris P, Yin TC (2007). PDF  A matter of time: Internal delays in binaural processing. Trends Neurosci. 30:70-78.

Psychophysics

1. MacPherson EA, Middlebrooks JC (2002). PDF Pointers  Listener weighting of cues for lateral angle: The duplex theory of sound localization revisited.  J Acoust Soc Am 111:2219-2236.  Delgutte.  Discussed 3/30.

2. Tollin DJ, Yin TCT (2003). PDF Pointers  Psychophysical investigation of an auditory spatial illusion in cats: The precedence effect.  J Neurophysiol 90: 2149–2162.  Delgutte.  Discussed 4/1.

3. Kidd G Jr, Mason CR, Brughera A, Hartmann WM (2005).  PDF Pointers  The role of reverberation in release from masking due to spatial separation of sources for speech identification.  Acustica 91:526-536.  Delgutte.  Discussed 4/1.

Neurophysiology and neural modeling 

1. Brand A, Behrend O, Marquardt T, McAlpine D, Grothe B (2002).  PDF  Pointers  Precise inhibition is essential for microsecond interaural time difference coding.  Nature 417:543-547.  Delgutte.  Discussed 3/30.

2. Joris PX, Van de Sande B, Louage DH, van der Heijden M (2006).  PDF Pointers  Binaural and cochlear disparities.  Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103:12917-22.  Delgutte.  Discussed 3/30.

3. Devore S, Ihlefeld A, Hancock KE, Shinn-Cunningham B, Delgutte B (2009). PDF Pointers  Accurate sound localization in reverberant environments is mediated by robust encoding of spatial cues in the auditory midbrain.  Neuron, in press.  Delgutte.  Discussed 4/1. 

Further reading

1. Pecka M, Brand A, Behrend O, Grothe B (2008).  PDF Interaural time difference processing in the mammalian medial superior olive: The role of glycinergic inhibition.  J Neurosci 28:6914-6925.  Further data on the effect of glycinergic inhibition on ITD tuning in MSO, from the same as as the Brand et al. (2002) paper.

2. Zhou Y, Carney LE, Colburn HS (2005).  PDF  A model for ITD sensitivity in the MSO: Interaction of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs, channel dynamics, and cellular morphology.  J Neurosci. 25:3046-3058.  This paper criticizes the modeling approach of Brand et al (2002) and proposes an alternative mechanism for inhibition to create delays.

2009 Student PowerPoint Presentations

1. Joris PPT

2. MacPherson  PPT

3. Brand.  PPT

4. Tollin  PDF

5. Kidd.  PPT

6. Devore  PPT