Neural processing of sounds in the dorsal and ventral streams of the (human) auditory
cortex is optimized for analyzing fine-grained temporal and spectral information …

The mammalian auditory system extracts features from the acoustic environment based on
the responses of spatially distributed sets of neurons in the subcortical and cortical auditory …

The processing characteristics of neurons in the central auditory system are directly shaped
by and reflect the statistics of natural acoustic environments, but the principles that govern …

Speech, music and other complex sounds are usually characterized by their pitch, timbre,
loudness, forms of modulation, and onset/offset instants. These descriptions of sound quality …

This work examines the computational architecture used by the brain during the analysis of
the spectral envelope of sounds, an important acoustic feature for defining auditory objects …

Natural sounds are structured on many time-scales. A typical segment of speech, for
example, contains features that span four orders of magnitude: Sentences (~ 1s); phonemes …

The ability to represent and recognize naturally occuring sounds such as speech depends
not only on spectral analysis carried out by the subcortical auditory system but also on the …

Temporal modulations are fundamental components of human speech and animal
communication sounds. Understanding their representations in the auditory cortex is a …

Functional neuroimaging research provides detailed observations of the response patterns
that natural sounds (eg human voices and speech, animal cries, environmental sounds) …

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 …