An important topic in contemporary auditory science is supra-threshold hearing. Difficulty
hearing at conversational speech levels in background noise has long been recognized as …

Anatomical and physiological studies have shown that anteroventral cochlear nucleus
(AVCN) neurons receive glycinergic and GABAergic inhibitory inputs. In this study, changes …

Neuronal communication forms the basis for all behavior, from the smallest movement to our
grandest thought processes. Among the many mechanisms that support these functions …

Key points• Basilar membrane responses to tone and noise stimuli presented
simultaneously were measured in chinchillas and a gerbil. Overall responses increase …

Tone-in-noise detection tasks with reproducible noise maskers have been used to identify
cues that listeners use to detect signals in noisy environments. Previous studies have shown …

Robust auditory perception plays a pivotal function for processing behaviorally relevant
sounds, particularly with distractions from the environment. The neuronal coding enabling …

Computations of acoustic information along the central auditory pathways start in the
cochlear nucleus. Bushy cells in the anteroventral cochlear nucleus, which innervate …

Natural auditory scenes such as frog choruses consist of multiple sound sources (ie,
individual vocalizing males) producing sounds that overlap extensively in time and …

Human detection thresholds in tone-in-noise (TIN) paradigms cannot be explained by the
prevalent power-spectrum model when stimulus energy is made less reliable, eg., in roving …

Detection of sounds is a fundamental function of the auditory system. Although studies of
auditory cortex have gained substantial insight into detection performance using behaving …