A core goal of auditory neuroscience is to build quantitative models that predict cortical
responses to natural sounds. Reasoning that a complete model of auditory cortex must solve …

When we run our fingers over the surface of an object, we acquire information about its
microgeometry and material properties. Texture information is widely believed to be …

Highlights•Auditory cortex nonlinearly structures auditory information.•Invariant and discrete
codes for auditory objects emerge in auditory cortex.•Behavioral context bidirectionally …

Functional neuroimaging research provides detailed observations of the response patterns
that natural sounds (eg human voices and speech, animal cries, environmental sounds) …

As one of the basic elements in acoustic events, timbre influences the brain collectively with
other factors such as pitch and loudness. Research on timbre perception involve …

Bottom-up attention is a sensory-driven selection mechanism that directs perception toward
a subset of the stimulus that is considered salient, or attention-grabbing. Most studies of …

A central goal of sensory neuroscience is to construct models that can explain neural
responses to natural stimuli. As a consequence, sensory models are often tested by …

Timbre is a complex auditory attribute that is extracted from a fused auditory event. Its
perceptual representation has been explored as a multidimensional attribute whose different …

A curious divide characterizes the usage of audio descriptors for timbre research in music
information research (MIR) and music psychology. While MIR uses a multitude of audio …

Humans excel at using sounds to make judgements about their immediate environment. In
particular, timbre is an auditory attribute that conveys crucial information about the identity of …