Stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA) is the reduction in the response to a common stimulus
that does not generalize, or only partially generalizes, to other, rare stimuli. SSA has been …

In this account, we attempt to integrate two parallel, but thus far, separate lines of research
on auditory novelty detection:(1) human studies of EEG recordings of the mismatch …

Adaptivity is a dynamical feature that is omnipresent in nature, socio-economics, and
technology. For example, adaptive couplings appear in various real-world systems, such as …

Animals depend on fast and reliable detection of novel stimuli in their environment. Neurons
in multiple sensory areas respond more strongly to novel in comparison to familiar stimuli …

Deviancy detection in the continuous flow of sensory information into the central nervous
system is of vital importance for animals. The task requires neuronal mechanisms that allow …

Auditory stream segregation involves linking temporally separate acoustic events into one or
more coherent sequences. For any non-trivial sequence of sounds, many alternative …

Highlights•Nervous systems often show adaptation to the on-going statistics of the sensory
scene.•Such adaptive mechanisms may be expressed as sensitivity to stimulus …

The ability to detect novel sounds in a complex acoustic context is crucial for survival.
Neurons from midbrain through cortical levels adapt to repetitive stimuli, while maintaining …

Stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA) occurs when the spike rate of a neuron decreases with
repetitions of the same stimulus, but recovers when a different stimulus is presented. It has …

Detecting unexpected stimuli in the environment is a critical function of the auditory system.
Responses to unexpected “deviant” sounds are enhanced compared to responses to …