Animal communication sounds exhibit complex temporal structure because of the amplitude
fluctuations that comprise the sound envelope. In human speech, envelope modulations …

Fluctuations in the amplitude envelope of complex sounds provide critical cues for hearing,
particularly for speech and animal vocalizations. Responses to amplitude modulation (AM) …

Humans are highly adept at processing speech. Recently, it has been shown that slow
temporal information in speech (ie, the envelope of speech) is critical for speech …

Cortical analysis of speech has long been considered the domain of left-hemisphere
auditory areas. A recent hypothesis poses that cortical processing of acoustic signals …

The ability to discriminate between complex natural sounds is critical for survival. Changes
in arousal and other aspects of behavioral state can impact the accuracy of sensory coding …

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 …

It has been suggested that “call-selective” neurons may play an important role in the
encoding of vocalizations in primary auditory cortex (A1). For example, marmoset A1 …

Most models of auditory cortical (AC) population coding have focused on primary auditory
cortex (A1). Thus our understanding of how neural coding for sounds progresses along the …

Previous research has shown that postnatal exposure to simple, synthetic sounds can affect
the sound representation in the auditory cortex as reflected by changes in the tonotopic map …

An important question in sensory neuroscience is what coding strategies and mechanisms
are used by the brain to detect and discriminate among behaviorally relevant stimuli. There …