Recent electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies provide converging evidence that
attending to sounds increases the response selectivity of neuronal ensembles even at the …

Cortical processing of auditory stimuli involves large populations of neurons with distinct
individual response profiles. However, the functional organization and dynamics of local …

Work on the functional organization of auditory cortex in nonhuman primates has recently
gained increasing attention. Neurophysiological studies using complex stimuli, combined …

The primate auditory cortex is anatomically divided into several areas, but little is known
about the functional differences between these areas. Similarly, although neurons in sub …

A fundamental feature of auditory perception is the constancy of sound recognition over a
large range of intensities. Although this invariance has been described in behavioral …

The spatial organization of response parameters in squirrel monkey primary auditory cortex
(AI) accessible on the temporal gyrus was determined with the excitatory receptive field to …

The encoding of sensory information by populations of cortical neurons forms the basis for
perception but remains poorly understood. To understand the constraints of cortical …

Spontaneous activity plays an important role in the function of neural circuits. Although many
similarities between spontaneous and sensory-evoked neocortical activity have been …

The responses of primary auditory cortex (A1) neurons to pure tones in anesthetized
animals are usually described as having mostly narrow, unimodal frequency tuning and …

Mammals can hear sounds extending over a vast range of sound levels with remarkable
accuracy. How auditory neurons code sound level over such a range is unclear; firing rates …