Speech and music have structured rhythms. Here we discuss a major acoustic correlate of
spoken and musical rhythms, the slow (0.25–32 Hz) temporal modulations in sound intensity …

We might be forced to listen to a high-frequency tone at our audiologist's office or we might
enjoy falling asleep with a white-noise machine, but the sounds that really matter to us are …

As in human speech acquisition, songbird vocal learning depends on early auditory
experience. During development, juvenile songbirds listen to and form auditory memories of …

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 …

The mouse auditory cortex (ACtx) contains two core fields—primary auditory cortex (A1) and
anterior auditory field (AAF)—arranged in a mirror reversal tonotopic gradient. The best …

Speech communication in real-world environments requires adaptation to changing acoustic
conditions. How the human auditory cortex adapts as a new noise source appears in or …

An increasingly popular animal model for studying the neural basis of social behavior,
cognition, and communication is the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). Interest in this …

Listening in noisy or complex sound environments is difficult for individuals with normal
hearing and can be a debilitating impairment for those with hearing loss. Extracting …

Unlike many species, song learning birds and humans have independently evolved the
ability to communicate via learned vocalizations. Both birdsong and spoken language are …

Categorization is crucial for behavioral flexibility because it enables animals to group stimuli
into meaningful classes that can easily be generalized to new circumstances. A most …