An important topic in contemporary auditory science is supra-threshold hearing. Difficulty
hearing at conversational speech levels in background noise has long been recognized as …

The inferior colliculus (IC) is a critical computational hub in the central auditory pathway.
From its position in the midbrain, the IC receives nearly all the ascending output from the …

Detection of amplitude modulation (AM) in 500 and 4000 Hz tonal carriers was measured as
a function of modulation frequency from younger and older adults with normal hearing …

Current models for neural coding of vowels are typically based on linear descriptions of the
auditory periphery, and fail at high sound levels and in background noise. These models …

Deaf people who use cochlear implants show surprisingly poor sensitivity to the temporal
fine structure of sounds. One possible reason is that conventional cochlear implants cannot …

Conflicting results have led to different views about how temporal modulation is encoded in
primary auditory cortex (A1). Some studies find a substantial population of neurons that …

Based on single-unit recordings of modulation transfer functions (MTFs) in the inferior
colliculus (IC) and the medial geniculate body (MGB) of the unanesthetized rabbit, we …

In reverberant environments, acoustic reflections interfere with the direct sound arriving at a
listener's ears, distorting the spatial cues for sound localization. Yet, human listeners have …

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 …

The temporal structure of sensory inputs contains essential information for their
interpretation. Sensory cortex represents these temporal cues through two codes: the …