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 …

Cognitive neuroscience has seen rapid growth in the size and complexity of data recorded
from the human brain as well as in the computational tools available to analyze this data …

Speech comprehension requires that the brain extract semantic meaning from the spectral
features represented at the cochlea. To investigate this process, we performed an fMRI …

“Neural coding” is a popular metaphor in neuroscience, where objective properties of the
world are communicated to the brain in the form of spikes. Here I argue that this metaphor is …

Although a universal code for the acoustic features of animal vocal communication calls may
not exist, the thorough analysis of the distinctive acoustical features of vocalization …

Experience shapes our perception of the world on a moment-to-moment basis. This robust
perceptual effect of experience parallels a change in the neural representation of stimulus …

The evolutionary origin of the six-layered mammalian neocortex has been controversial.
New data on genes with layer-specific expression in mammalian cortex have found an …

Attempts to relate the perceptual dimensions of timbre to quantitative acoustical dimensions
have been tenuous, leading to claims that timbre is an emergent property, if measurable at …

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

The steroid hormone estradiol plays an important role in reproductive development and
behavior and modulates a wide array of physiological and cognitive processes. Recently …