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 …

Although it is known that primary auditory cortex (A1) contributes to the processing and
perception of sound, its precise functions and the underlying mechanisms are not well …

Primary sensory cortex integrates sensory information from afferent feedforward
thalamocortical projection systems and convergent intracortical microcircuits. Both input …

Auditory cortex neurons integrate information over a broad range of sound frequencies, yet it
is not known how such integration is accomplished at the cellular or systems levels …

Multisensory integration was once thought to be the domain of brain areas high in the
cortical hierarchy, with early sensory cortical fields devoted to unisensory processing of …

Three complementary approaches demonstrate new types of organization in rodent, feline
and primate auditory cortex, as well as differences in processing between auditory and …

The transformation of auditory information from the cochlea to the cortex is a highly
nonlinear process. Studies using tone stimuli have revealed that changes in even the most …

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 …

Two fundamental aspects of frequency analysis shape the functional organization of primary
auditory cortex. For one, the decomposition of complex sounds into different frequency …

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 …