We can recognize the melody of a familiar song when it is played on different musical
instruments. Similarly, an animal must be able to recognize a warning call whether the caller …

Over the 2 decades that have elapsed since Robert Erickson first published his pioneering
work on across-fiber patterns in the gustatory system, the idea that information is …

A fundamental problem in hearing is detecting a “target” stimulus (eg, a friend's voice) that is
presented with a noisy background (eg, the din of a crowded restaurant). Despite its …

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

Theories of temporal coding by cortical neurons are supported by observations that
individual neurons can respond to sensory stimulation with millisecond precision and that …

The detection of a sensory stimulus arises from a significant change in neural activity, but a
sensory neuron's response is rarely identical to successive presentations of the same …

Highlights•The responses of neurons in the auditory cortex (AC) to complex sounds cannot
be predicted based on their responses to tones.•AC tone-evoked responses are shaped by …

Associative learning of pure tones is known to cause tonotopic map expansion in the
auditory cortex (ACx), but the function this plasticity sub-serves is unclear. We developed an …

Acoustic processing requires integration over time. We have used in vivo intracellular
recording to measure neuronal integration times in anesthetized rats. Using natural sounds …

The neural processing of sensory stimuli involves a transformation of physical stimulus
parameters into perceptual features, and elucidating where and how this transformation …