The formation of new sound categories is fundamental to everyday goal-directed behavior.
Categorization requires the abstraction of discrete classes from continuous physical features …

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to investigate the representation of
sound categories in human auditory cortex. Experiment 1 investigated the representation of …

The transformation of acoustic signals into abstract perceptual representations is the
essence of the efficient and goal-directed neural processing of sounds in complex natural …

Our ability to discriminate sounds such as vowels is not uniform throughout acoustic space.
That is, our auditory perceptual spaces are warped representations of acoustic space. One …

The ability to recognize sounds allows humans and animals to efficiently detect behaviorally
relevant events, even in the absence of visual information. Sound recognition in the human …

Despite the multidimensional and temporally fleeting nature of auditory signals we quickly
learn to assign novel sounds to behaviorally relevant categories. The neural systems …

Despite an extremely rich and complex auditory environment, human beings categorize
sounds effortlessly. While it is now well-known that this ability is a result of complex …

Categorizing sounds into meaningful groups helps listeners more efficiently process the
auditory scene and is a foundational skill for speech perception and language development …

Earlier studies reported evidence suggesting distinct category-related auditory
representations for environmental sounds such as animal vocalizations and tool sounds in …

Grouping auditory stimuli into common categories is essential for a variety of auditory tasks,
including speech recognition. We trained human participants to categorize auditory stimuli …