An important outstanding question in auditory neuroscience is to identify the mechanisms by
which specific motifs within inter-connected neural circuits affect auditory processing and …

A key for understanding how information is processed in the cortex is to unravel the
dauntingly complex cortical neural circuitry. Recent technical innovations, in particular the in …

Connectivity determines the function of neural circuits and it is the gateway to behavioral
output. The emergent properties of the Auditory Cortex (ACx) have been difficult to unravel …

Intracellular studies have revealed the importance of cotuned excitatory and inhibitory inputs
to neurons in auditory cortex, but typical spectrotemporal receptive field models of neuronal …

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 …

Highlights•Auditory cortex nonlinearly structures auditory information.•Invariant and discrete
codes for auditory objects emerge in auditory cortex.•Behavioral context bidirectionally …

Highlights•Natural sounds and simple sounds may be encoded and mapped differently
along the auditory system.•In cortex, response properties to complex sounds cannot be …

Although it is known that primary auditory cortex (A1) contributes to the processing and
perception of sound, its precise functions and the underlying mechanisms are not well …

An important question in auditory neuroscience concerns how the neural representation of
sound features changes from the periphery to the cortex. Here we focused on the encoding …

Cortical sensory neurons are commonly characterized using the receptive field, the linear
dependence of their response on the stimulus. In primary auditory cortex neurons can be …