Cortical information processing of the onset, offset, and continuous plateau of an acoustic
stimulus should play an important role in acoustic object perception. To date, transient …

Primary auditory cortex (AI) has a tonotopic map consisting of orderly isofrequency (IF)
bands, and cortical connections are commonly supposed to link domains preferring similar …

Functional and anatomical studies have clearly demonstrated that auditory cortex is
populated by multiple subfields. However, functional characterization of those fields has …

Cortical mechanisms of auditory perception include temporal interaction between neuronal
ensembles in a functional cortical structure such as a place code of frequency, or tonotopic …

Natural acoustic stimuli contain slow temporal fluctuations, and the modulation of ongoing
slow-wave activity by bottom-up and top-down factors plays essential roles in auditory …

Auditory neurons are likely adapted to process complex stimuli, such as vocalizations, which
contain spectrotemporal modulations. However, basic properties of auditory neurons are …

Cortical representation of time-varying features of acoustic signals is a fundamental issue of
acoustic processing remaining unresolved. The rat is a widely used animal model for …

In the auditory cortex, auditory‐evoked onset activities have been extensively investigated
as a cortical representation of sound information and the emotional information that is …

Prevailing studies of auditory systems pay most attention to the dynamic temporal changes
of sound intensity, but poorly enlighten the encoding of steady-state aspects. Using tone …

Although the place code of tone frequency, or tonotopic map, has been widely accepted in
the auditory cortex, tone-evoked activation becomes less frequency-specific at moderate or …