The detection of a sensory stimulus arises from a significant change in neural activity, but a
sensory neuron's response is rarely identical to successive presentations of the same …

The ability to process and respond to external input is critical for adaptive behavior. Why,
then, do neural and behavioral responses vary across repeated presentations of the same …

Despite significant interest in the neural underpinnings of behavioral variability, little light
has been shed on the cortical mechanism underlying the failure to respond to perceptual …

Animals often listen selectively for particular sounds, a strategy that could alter neural
encoding mechanisms to maximize the ability to detect the target. Here, we recorded …

Establishing neural determinants of psychophysical performance requires both behavioral
and neurophysiological metrics amenable to correlative analyses. It is often assumed that …

The auditory scene is dynamic, changing from 1 min to the next as sound sources enter and
leave our space. How does the brain resolve the problem of maintaining neural …

The effect of attention on single neuron responses in the auditory system is unresolved. We
found that when monkeys discriminated temporally amplitude modulated (AM) from …

Different speech sounds evoke unique patterns of activity in primary auditory cortex (A1).
Behavioral discrimination by rats is well correlated with the distinctness of the A1 patterns …

Neurons in sensory brain regions shape our perception of the surrounding environment
through two parallel operations: decomposition and integration. For example, auditory …

Behavior is a complex product of interactions between sensory influx arising from the
environment and the neural state of the organism. Therefore, identical sensory input can …