Auditory Brain Stem Response to Complex （听觉脑干反应复杂）.pdfVIP

Auditory Brain Stem Response to Complex Sounds: A Tutorial Erika Skoe1 and Nina Kraus1,2 This tutorial provides a comprehensive overview of the methodolog- Early studies of the ABR used simple stimuli such as clicks ical approach to collecting and analyzing auditory brain stem re- and sinusoidal tones to tap into and maximize these transient sponses to complex sounds (cABRs). cABRs provide a window into and sustained ABRs. Although clicks and tones have been how behaviorally relevant sounds such as speech and music are instrumental in defining these basic response patterns, they are processed in the brain. Because temporal and spectral characteris- poor approximations of the behaviorally relevant sounds that tics of sounds are preserved in this subcortical response, cABRs can we encounter outside the laboratory (e.g., speech and music, be used to assess specific impairments and enhancements in auditory processing. Notably, subcortical auditory function is neither nonspeech vocal sounds, and environmental sounds). More- passive nor hardwired but dynamically interacts with higher-level over, although complex sounds include both sustained and cognitive processes to refine how sounds are transcribed into neural transient features, the response to a complex sound is not code. This experience-dependent plasticity, which can occur on a necessarily predictable from the response to click and tones number of time scales (e.g., lif