What happens in our brain when we make a decision? What triggers a neuron to send out a
signal? What is the neural code? This textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning …

Auditory stimulus reconstruction is a technique that finds the best approximation of the
acoustic stimulus from the population of evoked neural activity. Reconstructing speech from …

How the human auditory system extracts perceptually relevant acoustic features of speech is
unknown. To address this question, we used intracranial recordings from nonprimary …

Songbirds, like humans, are highly accomplished vocal learners. The many parallels
between speech and birdsong and conserved features of mammalian and avian auditory …

Neural spike train analysis is an important task in computational neuroscience which aims to
understand neural mechanisms and gain insights into neural circuits. With the advancement …

Identifying behaviorally relevant sounds in the presence of background noise is one of the
most important and poorly understood challenges faced by the auditory system. An elegant …

In the auditory system, the stimulus-response properties of single neurons are often
described in terms of the spectrotemporal receptive field (STRF), a linear kernel relating the …

Decoding sensory stimuli from neural signals can be used to reveal how we sense our
physical environment, and is valuable for the design of brain-machine interfaces. However …

Experimentation is at the core of research in the behavioral and neural sciences, yet
observations can be expensive and time-consuming to acquire (eg, MRI scans, responses …

The ubiquity of social vocalizations among animals provides the opportunity to identify
conserved mechanisms of auditory processing that subserve communication. Identifying …