While task-dependent changes have been demonstrated in auditory cortex for a number of
behavioral paradigms and mammalian species, less is known about how behavioral state …

Hearing involves analyzing the physical attributes of sounds and integrating the results of
this analysis with other sensory, cognitive and motor variables in order to guide adaptive …

Previous research has demonstrated that auditory cortical neurons can modify their
receptive fields when animals engage in auditory detection tasks. We tested for this form of …

Auditory neuronal responses are modified by background noise. Inferior colliculus (IC)
neuronal responses adapt to the most frequent sound level within an acoustic scene …

Recent evidence is reshaping the view of primary auditory cortex (A1) from a unisensory
area to one more involved in dynamically integrating multisensory-and task-related …

Linking sensory input and its consequences is a fundamental brain operation. During
behavior, the neural activity of neocortical and limbic systems often reflects dynamic …

Neural responses in the auditory cortex have historically been measured from either
anesthetized or awake but non-behaving animals. A growing body of work has begun to …

A central tenet in brain research is that early sensory cortex is modality specific, and, only in
exceptional cases, such as deaf and blind subjects or professional musicians, is influenced …

The specific contribution of core auditory cortex to auditory perception–such as
categorization–remains controversial. To identify a contribution of the primary auditory cortex …

There are functional and anatomical distinctions between the neural systems involved in the
recognition of sounds in the environment and those involved in the sensorimotor guidance …