Recordings of single neurons have yielded great insights into the way acoustic stimuli are
represented in auditory cortex. However, any one neuron functions as part of a population …

How do neuronal populations in the auditory cortex represent acoustic stimuli? Although
sound-evoked neural responses in the anesthetized auditory cortex are mainly transient …

How does auditory cortex represent auditory stimuli, and how do these representations
contribute to behavior? Recent experimental evidence suggests that activity in auditory …

Spontaneous activity plays an important role in the function of neural circuits. Although many
similarities between spontaneous and sensory-evoked neocortical activity have been …

The auditory cortex encodes information about sounds through the combined activity of
large numbers of neurons, but the way this population activity is organized has not been …

Auditory signals are decomposed into discrete frequency elements early in the transduction
process, yet somehow these signals are recombined into the rich acoustic percepts that we …

Recent evidence indicates the existence of pyramidal cells (PCs) and interneurons with
nontrivial tuning characteristics for sound attributes in the primary auditory cortex (A1) of …

In contrast to the visual system, the auditory system has longer subcortical pathways and
more spiking synapses between the peripheral receptors and the cortex. This unique …

The organization of the cortical auditory system remains controversial. In particular, the
extent to which there is regional specialization in the cortical processing of complex sound is …

Cortical processing of auditory stimuli involves large populations of neurons with distinct
individual response profiles. However, the functional organization and dynamics of local …