This review investigates the roles of representation, transformation and coding as part of a
hierarchical process between sound and perception. This is followed by a survey of how …

Development of the human auditory brainstem is thought to be primarily complete by the age
of∼ 2 years, such that subsequent sensory plasticity is confined primarily to the cortex …

Auditory nerve single-unit population studies have demonstrated that phase-locking plays a
dominant role in the neural encoding of the spectrum of speech sounds. Given this, it was …

Auditory nerve single-unit population studies have demonstrated that phase-locking plays a
dominant role in the neural encoding of both the spectrum and voice pitch of speech sounds …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to expand our understanding of how the human
auditory brainstem encodes temporal and spectral acoustic cues in voiced stop consonant …

Speech is the most interesting and one of the most complex sounds dealt with by the
auditory system. The neural representation of speech needs to capture those features of the …

In all higher vertebrates, the nuclei of the lateral lemniscus lie interposed between the
cochlear nuclei and the inferior colliculi. The integrative roles of these neurons in the largely …

This chapter focuses on the physiological mechanisms underlying the processing of speech,
particularly as it pertains to the signal's pitch and timbre, as well as its spectral shape and …

The role of early auditory processing may be to extract some elementary features from an
acoustic mixture in order to organize the auditory scene. To accomplish this task, the central …

The nature of the code used in the auditory cortex to represent complex auditory stimuli,
such as naturally spoken words, remains a matter of debate. Here we argue that such …