… The averaged power spectrum for stimuli of the categories used in the present study (Fig.
1A) revealed that animal vocalizations typically contained a greater relative power in the range …

… vocal sounds from other environmental sounds. … to the spectral resolution of vocal sounds.
We find that behavioral and neural response selectivity is explained by sensitivity to spectral …

… on spectral selectivity. To this end, we firstly compared responses to an environmental sound
of auditory midbrain neurons across 3 subpopulations of neurons with frequency selectivity …

… selectivity to natural stimuli in the midbrain superior colliculus (SC) of the echolocating bat,
an animal that probes the environment … neural selectivity to the underlying spectral features of …

… Here, we provide evidence that selective tuning for spectro-… This general match between
selective tuning for low spectral … these modulations in environmental sounds. The intermediate …

… They also define a new family of generalized Gammatone filters that allow for additional
degrees of freedom in the trade-off between the temporal dynamics and the spectral selectivity …

… stimulus tuning and underlying nonlinear interactions along the spectral dimension. This …
-passed noise, selectivity for features of environmental sounds and selectivity for discrete tone-…

… spectral structure between the speech and environmental … the selective processing of speech
and environmental sounds … the processing of speech sounds in effortful listening conditions…

… However, if these ROIs were selective for simple spectral features rather than the temporal
… , this study employed general environmental sounds (animals and sounds produced by man-…

… Spectral filtering by the peripheral auditory system results in … Based on physical constraints
of the environment on long-… kHz (15 bands), and the sound pressure level of the tone was …