Here we report on response properties and the roles of inhibition in three brain stem nuclei
of Mexican-free tailed bats: the inferior colliculus (IC), the dorsal nucleus of the lateral …

Hearing loss prevents vocal learning and causes learned vocalizations to deteriorate, but
how vocalization-related auditory feedback acts on neural circuits that control vocalization …

Background Non-invasive recordings of gross neural activity in humans often show
responses to omitted stimuli in steady trains of identical stimuli. This has been taken as …

Listening to speech is often demanding because of signal degradations and the presence of
distracting sounds (ie,“noise”). The question how the brain achieves the task of extracting …

Auditory nerve fibers encode sounds in the precise timing of action potentials (APs), which is
used for such computations as sound localization. Timing information is relayed through …

Spontaneous speech is produced in chunks called intonation units (IUs). IUs are defined by
a set of prosodic cues and presumably occur in all human languages. Recent work has …

Both human speech and animal vocal signals contain frequency-modulated (FM) sounds.
Although central auditory neurons that selectively respond to the direction of frequency …

Despite significant research and important clinical correlates, direct neural evidence for a
phonological loop linking speech perception, short-term memory and production remains …

During social interactions, speakers often produce spontaneous gestures to accompany
their speech. These coordinated body movements convey communicative intentions, and …

Sound duration is important in acoustic communication, including speech recognition in
humans. Although duration-selective auditory neurons have been found, the underlying …