The ability to recognize sounds allows humans and animals to efficiently detect behaviorally
relevant events, even in the absence of visual information. Sound recognition in the human …

Single cat auditory cortex neurons have limited intensity dynamic ranges for characteristic
frequency (CF) tones. In the presence of continuous wide-spectrum noise, these cells' tone …

Segmenting the complex acoustic mixture that makes a typical auditory scene into relevant
perceptual objects is one of the main challenges of the auditory system [1], for both human …

Auditory neurons must represent accurately a wide range of sound levels using firing rates
that vary over a far narrower range of levels. Recently, we demonstrated that this “dynamic …

An important question in sensory neuroscience is what coding strategies and mechanisms
are used by the brain to detect and discriminate among behaviorally relevant stimuli. There …

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 …

Vocal communicators such as humans and songbirds readily recognize individual
vocalizations, even in distracting auditory environments. This perceptual ability is likely …

We examined the coding of sound-source location by ensembles of neurons in the auditory
cortex. Broadband noise bursts were presented from loudspeakers throughout 360° in the …

Neurons in auditory cortex are central to our perception of sounds. However, the underlying
neural codes, and the relevance of millisecond-precise spike timing in particular, remain …

Neurons in auditory cortex are sensitive to the probability of stimuli: responses to rare stimuli
tend to be stronger than responses to common ones. Here, intra-and extracellular …