Roughness is a perceptual attribute typically associated with certain stimuli that are
presented in one of the spatial senses. In auditory research, the term is typically used to …

Revealed more than two millennia ago by Pythagoras, consonance and dissonance (C/D)
are foundational concepts in music theory, perception, and aesthetics. The search for the …

Vocalizations including laughter, cries, moans, or screams constitute a potent source of
information about the affective states of others. It is typically conjectured that the higher the …

Sound discrimination is essential in many species for communicating and foraging. Bats, for
example, use sounds for echolocation and communication. In the bat auditory cortex there …

Vocal communication is used across extant vertebrates, is evolutionarily ancient, and been
maintained, in many lineages. Here I review the neural circuit architectures that support …

Deviance detection describes an increase of neural response strength caused by a stimulus
with a low probability of occurrence. This ubiquitous phenomenon has been reported for …

Echolocation behavior, a navigation strategy based on acoustic signals, allows scientists to
explore neural processing of behaviorally relevant stimuli. For the purpose of orientation …

In humans, screams have strong amplitude modulations (AM) at 30 to 150 Hz. These AM
correspond to the acoustic correlate of perceptual roughness. In bats, distress calls can carry …

Distress calls are a vocalization type widespread across the animal kingdom, emitted when
the animals are under duress, eg when captured by a predator. Here, we report on an …

Animals engage in agonistic interactions to gain exclusive access to territories and
resources. Understanding these interactions in bats, however, has proven difficult given their …