Contents: Preface. Part I: Auditory Cortical Fields and Their Functions. E. Budinger, Introduction: Auditory Cortical Fields and Their Functions. J.H. Kaas, T.A. Hackett, Subdivisions and Connections of the Auditory Cortex in Primates: A Working Model. P. Morosan, J. Rademacher, N. Palomero-Gallagher, K. Zilles, Anatomical Organization of the Human Auditory Cortex: Cytoarchitecture and Transmitter Receptors. D.A. Hall, Sensitivity to Spectral and Temporal Properties of Sound in Human Non-Primary Auditory Cortex. S. Clarke, M. Adriani, E. Tardif, "What" and "Where" in Human Audition: Evidence From Anatomical, Activation, and Lesion Studies. K. Imaizumi, C.C. Lee, J.F. Linden, J.A. Winer, C.E. Schreiner, The Anterior Field of Auditory Cortex: Neurophysiological and Neuroanatomical Organization. H.E. Heffner, The Neurobehavioral Study of Auditory Cortex. M. Brosch, H. Scheich, Non-Acoustic Influence on Neural Activity in Auditory Cortex. J.F. Brugge, I.O. Volkov, R.A. Reale, P.C. Garell, H. Kawasaki, H. Oya, Q. Li, M.A. Howard III, The Posterolateral Superior Temporal Auditory Field in Humans: Functional Organization and Connectivity. P. Belin, R.J. Zatorre, Voice Processing in Human Auditory Cortex. H. Ackermann, I. Hertrich, W. Lutzenberger, K. Mathiak, Cerebral Organization of Speech Sound Perception: Hemispheric Lateralization Effects at the Level of the Supratemporal Plane, the Inferior Dorsolateral Frontal Lobe and the Cerebellum. Part II: Coding of Sounds. M. Brosch, Introduction: Coding of Sounds. P. Heil, H. Neubauer, Toward a Unifying Basis of Auditory Thresholds. J.C. Middlebrooks, S. Furukawa, G.C. Stecker, B.J. Mickey, Distributed Representation of Sound-Source Location in the Auditory Cortex. B. Wible, T. Nicol, N. Kraus, Encoding of Complex Sounds in an Animal Model: Implications for Understanding Speech Perception in Humans. J.J. Eggermont, Correlated Neural Activity: Epiphenomenon or Part of the Neural Code? A.E.P. Villa, Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Spike Occurrences in Freely-Moving Rats Associated to Perception of Human Vowels. E. Ahissar, M. Ahissar, Processing of the Temporal Envelope of Speech. I. Taniguchi, S. Sugimoto, A. Hess, J. Horikawa, Y. Hosokawa, H. Scheich, Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Responses to Pure Tones and Frequency Modulated Sounds in the Guinea Pig Auditory Cortex. I. Nelken, L. Las, N. Ulanovsky, D. Farkas, Levels of Auditory Processing: The Subcortical Auditory System, Primary Auditory Cortex, and the Hard Problems of Auditory Perception. S.J. Eliades, X. Wang, Dynamics of Vocalization-Induced Sensory-Motor Interactions in the Primate Auditory Cortex. Part III: Plasticity, Learning, and Cognition. R. König, Introduction: Plasticity, Learning, and Cognition. J-M. Edeline, Learning-Induced Plasticity in the Thalamo-Cortical Auditory System: Should We Move From Rate Code to Temporal Code Descriptions? H. Scheich, F.W. Ohl, H. Schulze, A. Hess, A. Brechmann, What Is Reflected in Auditory Cortex Activity: Properties of Sound Stimuli or What the Brain Does With Them? D. Irvine, M. Brown, R. Martin, V. Park, Auditory Perceptual Learning and Cortical Plasticity. F.W. Ohl, H. Scheich, W.J. Freeman, Neurodynamics in Auditory Cortex During Category Learning. J. Fritz, M. Elhilali, S. Shamma, Task-Dependent Adaptive Plasticity of Receptive Fields in Primary Auditory Cortex of the Ferret. J. Rüsseler, W. Nager, J. Möbes, T.F. Münte, Cognitive Adaptations and Neuroplasticity: Lessons From Event-Related Brain Potentials.
