The auditory CNS is influenced profoundly by sounds heard during development. Auditory
deprivation and augmented sound exposure can each perturb the maturation of neural …

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

Cell-to-cell variability in molecular, genetic, and physiological features is increasingly
recognized as a critical feature of complex biological systems, including the brain. Although …

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 …

Vocal learners use early social experience to develop auditory skills specialized for
communication. However, it is unknown where in the auditory pathway neural responses …

The extensive feedback from the auditory cortex (AC) to the inferior colliculus (IC) supports
critical aspects of auditory behavior but has not been extensively characterized. Previous …

An essential task of the auditory system is to discriminate between different communication
signals, such as vocalizations. In everyday acoustic environments, the auditory system …

The majority of sensory physiology experiments have used anesthesia to facilitate the
recording of neural activity. Current techniques allow researchers to study sensory function …

The detection of a sensory stimulus arises from a significant change in neural activity, but a
sensory neuron's response is rarely identical to successive presentations of the same …

In addition to ascending, descending, and lateral auditory projections, inputs extrinsic to the
auditory system also influence neural processing in the inferior colliculus (IC). These types …