In this study, we explored ways to account more accurately for responses of neurons in
primary auditory cortex (A1) to natural sounds. The auditory cortex has evolved to extract …

The intrinsic properties of tonically firing neurons in the cochlear nucleus contribute to
representing average sound intensity by favoring synaptic integration across auditory nerve …

Highlights•The responses of neurons in the auditory cortex (AC) to complex sounds cannot
be predicted based on their responses to tones.•AC tone-evoked responses are shaped by …

In the rodent auditory system, the primary cortex is subdivided into two regions, both
receiving direct inputs from the auditory thalamus: the primary auditory cortex (A1) and the …

Natural sounds often contain energy over a broad spectral range and consequently overlap
in frequency when they occur simultaneously; however, such sounds under normal …

Auditory cortex contributes to the processing and perception of spectrotemporally complex
stimuli. However, the mechanisms by which this is accomplished are not well understood. In …

In the auditory system, early neural stations such as brain stem are characterized by strict
tonotopy, which is used to deconstruct sounds to their basic frequencies. But higher along …

Neurons exhibiting on and off responses with different frequency tuning have previously
been described in the primary auditory cortex (A1) of anesthetized and awake animals, but it …

Brain asymmetry in the sensitivity to spectrotemporal modulation is an established functional
feature that underlies the perception of speech and music. Recent studies in humans …

Spatial hearing sensitivity in humans is dynamic and task-dependent, but the mechanisms in
human auditory cortex that enable dynamic sound location encoding remain unclear. Using …