Age-related hearing loss (presbycusis) affects∼ 35% of humans older than sixty-five years.
Symptoms of presbycusis include impaired discrimination of sounds with fast temporal …

Interaction with the world requires an organism to transform sensory signals into
representations in which behaviorally meaningful properties of the environment are made …

Auditory forebrain pathways exhibit several morphological and physiological properties that
underlie their specific neurobiological roles in auditory processing. Anatomically, such …

Background Simultaneous recording of brainstem and cortical event-related brain potentials
(ERPs) may offer a valuable tool for understanding the early neural transcription of …

Events and objects in the world must be inferred from sensory signals to support behavior.
Because sensory measurements are temporally and spatially local, the estimation of an …

The layers of the neocortex each have a unique anatomical connectivity and functional role.
Their exploration in the human brain, however, has been severely restricted by the limited …

In the primary auditory cortex, spectrotemporal receptive fields (STRFs) are composed of
multiple independent components that capture the processing of disparate stimulus aspects …

Cat auditory cortex (AC) receives input from many thalamic nuclei and cortical areas.
Previous connectional studies often focused on one connectional system in isolation …

Adaptation to stimulus statistics, such as the mean level and contrast of recently heard
sounds, has been demonstrated at various levels of the auditory pathway. It allows the …

Of all the signals human auditory cortex has to process, the one with the most compelling
relevance to the listener is arguably speech. Parsing and decoding speech—the conspecific …