Early in auditory processing, neural responses faithfully reflect acoustic input. At higher
stages of auditory processing, however, neurons become selective for particular call types …

An increasingly popular animal model for studying the neural basis of social behavior,
cognition, and communication is the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus). Interest in this …

Sensory neurons are customarily characterized by one or more linearly weighted receptive
fields describing sensitivity in sensory space and time. We show that in auditory cortical and …

Background Radial intra-and interlaminar connections form a basic microcircuit in primary
auditory cortex (AI) that extracts acoustic information and distributes it to cortical and …

During the critical period, neuronal connections are shaped by sensory experience. While
the basis for this temporarily heightened plasticity remains unclear, shared connections …

Cortical sensory neurons are commonly characterized using the receptive field, the linear
dependence of their response on the stimulus. In primary auditory cortex neurons can be …

The cerebral cortex is subdivided into six layers based on morphological features. The
supragranular layers 2/3 (L2/3) contain morphologically and genetically diverse populations …

The ability to recognize auditory objects like words and bird songs is thought to depend on
neural responses that are selective between categories of the objects and tolerant of …

Following rapid methodological advances, ultra-high field (UHF) functional and anatomical
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been repeatedly and successfully used for the …

How perception of sensory stimuli emerges from brain activity is a fundamental question of
neuroscience. To date, two disparate lines of research have examined this question. On one …