BCS 521. Audition

Professor Ison

Prerequisites: ANA/NSC 531, or NSC 201/BCS 240, permission of instructor.

Examines the physiological substrate responsible for hearing. Topics include the physical stimulus for hearing, receptive aspects of speech and language, peripheral physiology (the outer and middle ears, cochlea, and auditory nerve), and central physiology (brainstem nuclei, auditory cortex, descending systems). Introduces electrophysiological techniques used to study auditory function, and explores sensory and perceptual correlates of physiology and sensorineural hearing loss.