Preface

Chapter 7 **Aging Auditory System and Amplification 111**

**Learning Simulations 131**

**Section 6 New aspects of Auditory periphery 165**

**World Science 153**

**Loud Music 167**

Yoshiharu Soeta

**Sense Organ 207** Raphael R. Ciuman

Chapter 13 **Ototoxicity: Old and New Foes 233** Agnieszka J. Szczepek

**Section 7 Ototoxicity 231**

**Section 5 Cochlear Implants 129**

**VI** Contents

Payton Lin

Christiane Marques do Couto and Izabella dos Santos Brites

Chapter 8 **Temporal Filterbanks in Cochlear Implant Hearing and Deep**

Chapter 9 **Treatment of Partial Deafness: The Polish School in**

Chapter 11 **Psychophysiological Evidence of an Autocorrelation**

Henryk Skarżyński and Piotr Henryk Skarżyński

Chapter 10 **Various Aspects of Auditory Fatigue Caused by Listening to**

Andrzej Dobrucki, Maurycy J. Kin and Bartłomiej Kruk

**Mechanism in the Human Auditory System 187**

Chapter 12 **Cochlea – A Physiological Description of a Finely Structured**

The objective of the present book is to diffuse information related to a number of technologi‐ cal and procedural advances in the area of clinical audiology. This book was made possible through the generous contribution of 20 authors.

The format for this book is purely educational, targeting graduate courses in audiology, speech pathology and hearing science, and neurosciences and basic graduate courses in ENT. The authors have been asked to present a generous background of their topic, in the "Introduction" section of their chapter, and an extensive list of technical terms used through‐ out the chapter.

The book is divided into six sections as follows:


It was my intention to use multimedia material wherever possible, but for the majority of contributors, this was not feasible, during the publication time. We were only able to locate a few interesting videos on wideband tympanometry, and the web references are included in the Appendix section of the relative chapter.

#### **Acknowledgments**

I would personally like to thank all the contributing authors, the InTech personnel, and spe‐ cifically Ms. Ana Simcic for her continuous and generous assistance during the preparation of the volume.

> **Stavros Hatzopoulos, PhD** Clinic of Audiology and ENT, University of Ferrara, Italy

**Section 1**
