Spectral-temporal receptive fields of nonlinear auditory neurons obtained using natural sounds

FE Theunissen, K Sen, AJ Doupe - Journal of neuroscience, 2000 - Soc Neuroscience
The stimulus–response function of many visual and auditory neurons has been described by
a spatial-temporal receptive field (STRF), a linear model that for mathematical reasons has …

The consequences of response nonlinearities for interpretation of spectrotemporal receptive fields

GB Christianson, M Sahani, JF Linden - Journal of neuroscience, 2008 - Soc Neuroscience
Neurons in the central auditory system are often described by the spectrotemporal receptive
field (STRF), conventionally defined as the best linear fit between the spectrogram of a …

Linearity of cortical receptive fields measured with natural sounds

CK Machens, MS Wehr, AM Zador - Journal of Neuroscience, 2004 - Soc Neuroscience
How do cortical neurons represent the acoustic environment? This question is often
addressed by probing with simple stimuli such as clicks or tone pips. Such stimuli have the …

Cooperative nonlinearities in auditory cortical neurons

CA Atencio, TO Sharpee, CE Schreiner - Neuron, 2008 - cell.com
Cortical receptive fields represent the signal preferences of sensory neurons. Receptive
fields are thought to provide a representation of sensory experience from which the cerebral …

A generalized linear model for estimating spectrotemporal receptive fields from responses to natural sounds

A Calabrese, JW Schumacher, DM Schneider… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
In the auditory system, the stimulus-response properties of single neurons are often
described in terms of the spectrotemporal receptive field (STRF), a linear kernel relating the …

Estimating spatio-temporalreceptive fields of auditory and visual neurons from theirresponses to natural stimuli

FE Theunissen, SV David, NC Singh… - … in Neural Systems, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a generalized reverse correlation technique that can be used to estimate the
spatio-temporal receptive fields (STRFs) of sensory neurons from their responses to arbitrary …

Sound representation methods for spectro-temporal receptive field estimation

P Gill, J Zhang, SMN Woolley, T Fremouw… - Journal of computational …, 2006 - Springer
The spectro-temporal receptive field (STRF) of an auditory neuron describes the linear
relationship between the sound stimulus in a time-frequency representation and the neural …

Nonlinearities and contextual influences in auditory cortical responses modeled with multilinear spectrotemporal methods

MB Ahrens, JF Linden, M Sahani - Journal of Neuroscience, 2008 - Soc Neuroscience
The relationship between a sound and its neural representation in the auditory cortex
remains elusive. Simple measures such as the frequency response area or frequency tuning …

Feature analysis of natural sounds in the songbird auditory forebrain

K Sen, FE Theunissen… - Journal of …, 2001 - journals.physiology.org
Although understanding the processing of natural sounds is an important goal in auditory
neuroscience, relatively little is known about the neural coding of these sounds. Recently we …

Spectrotemporal contrast kernels for neurons in primary auditory cortex

NC Rabinowitz, BDB Willmore… - Journal of …, 2012 - Soc Neuroscience
Auditory neurons are often described in terms of their spectrotemporal receptive fields
(STRFs). These map the relationship between features of the sound spectrogram and firing …