A sound, depending on the position of its source, can take more time to reach one ear than
the other. This interaural (between the ears) time difference (ITD) provides a major cue for …

The accuracy with which listeners can locate sounds is much greater than the spatial
sensitivity of single neurons,,. The broad spatial tuning of auditory neurons indicates that a …

Animals, including humans, use interaural time differences (ITDs) that arise from different
sound path lengths to the two ears as a cue of horizontal sound source location. The nature …

The auditory neural code must serve a wide range of auditory tasks that require great
sensitivity in time and frequency and be effective over the diverse array of sounds present in …

Mammals can hear sounds extending over a vast range of sound levels with remarkable
accuracy. How auditory neurons code sound level over such a range is unclear; firing rates …

The cortex represents information across widely varying timescales,,,,. For instance, sensory
cortex encodes stimuli that fluctuate over few tens of milliseconds,, whereas in association …

The auditory system encodes sound by decomposing the amplitude signal arriving at the ear
into multiple frequency bands whose center frequencies and bandwidths are approximately …

CORTICAL population coding could in principle rely on either the mean rate of neuronal
action potentials, or the relative timing of action potentials, or both. When a single sensory …

Sound-processing strategies that use the highly non-random structure of natural sounds
may confer evolutionary advantage to many species. Auditory processing of natural sounds …

Precise temporal coding is a hallmark of the auditory system. Selective pressures to improve
accuracy or encode more rapid changes have produced a suite of convergent physiological …