Vocal communicators discriminate conspecific vocalizations from other sounds and
recognize the vocalizations of individuals. To identify neural mechanisms for the …

Many social animals including songbirds use communication vocalizations for individual
recognition. The perception of vocalizations depends on the encoding of complex sounds by …

Physiological studies in vocal animals such as songbirds indicate that vocalizations drive
auditory neurons particularly well. But the neural mechanisms whereby vocalizations are …

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 …

Auditory perception depends on the coding and organization of the information-bearing
acoustic features of sounds by auditory neurons. We report here that auditory neurons can …

Vocal learners use early social experience to develop auditory skills specialized for
communication. However, it is unknown where in the auditory pathway neural responses …

Understanding how single cortical neurons discriminate between sensory stimuli is
fundamental to providing a link between cortical neural responses and perception. The …

We examined the neural encoding of synthetic and natural sounds by single neurons in the
auditory system of male zebra finches by estimating the mutual information in the time …

The division of continuously variable acoustic signals into discrete perceptual categories is a
fundamental feature of vocal communication, including human speech. Despite the …

The selectivity of neurons in the zebra finch auditory forebrain for natural sounds was
investigated systematically. The principal auditory forebrain area in songbirds consists of the …