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 …

Speech perception is thought to rely on a cortical feedforward serial transformation of
acoustic into linguistic representations. Using intracranial recordings across the entire …

Our ability to make sense of the auditory world results from neural processing that begins in
the ear, goes through multiple subcortical areas, and continues in the cortex. The specific …

Mammalian neocortex is characterized by a layered architecture and a common or
“canonical” microcircuit governing information flow among layers. This microcircuit is thought …

Auditory neurons are often described in terms of their spectrotemporal receptive fields
(STRFs). These map the relationship between features of the sound spectrogram and firing …

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

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 …

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

For several decades, auditory neuroscientists have used spectro-temporal encoding models
to understand how neurons in the auditory system represent sound. Derived from early …

Our ability to perceive multiple objects is mysterious. Sensory neurons are broadly tuned,
producing potential overlap in the populations of neurons activated by each object in a …