Analysis of early auditory evoked potentials elicited by stimuli with directional information

The objective of the present thesis is to elucidate a neural correlate of spatial hearing in humans. Auditory brain stem responses (ABRs) and binaural difference potentials (BDs) to stimuli with interaural differences in time (ITD) and level (ILD) are measured and analyzed. In chap. 2 the advantage of using information from the raw data of a measurement to accurately estimate the residual noise and the signal-to-noise ratio of an evoked potential is demonstrated. In chap. 3 it is shown that the amplitudes of ABRs and BDs rather correspond to the lateralization of the stimuli than to the interaural parameters. Chap. 4 deals with the dipole source analysis of multi-channel ABR data to lateralized clicks. The moment trajectories of a rotating dipole do not correlate with a single interaural cue alone, but with the psychophysical lateralization caused by the combination of both cues indicating an early extraction of the lateralization of a sound source. In chap. 5 it is shown that binaural ABRs and BDs have larger amplitudes for rising frequency chirps than for clicks. The constant amplitude ratio between BDs and binaural ABRs supports the hypothesis that binaural processing is predominantly contralateral inhibitory and ipsilateral excitatory.

Level thesis:degree_level

thesis.doctoral

Grantor dc:publisher

Universität Oldenburg

Year

2002

Author dc:creator

• Riedel, Helmut

• [Keine Schlagwörter von Autor/in vergeben.]

Repository record source_url

http://oops.uni-oldenburg.de/296

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oops.uni-oldenburg.de:296