The principle function of the central nervous system is to represent and transform information
and thereby mediate appropriate decisions and behaviors. The cerebral cortex is one of the …

This review investigates the roles of representation, transformation and coding as part of a
hierarchical process between sound and perception. This is followed by a survey of how …

The brain's cerebral cortex decomposes visual images into information about oriented
edges, direction and velocity information, and color. How does the cortex decompose …

Abstract The Spectro-Temporal Receptive Field (STRF) of an auditory neuron has been
introduced experimentally on the base of the average spectrotemporal structure of the …

The spectrotemporal receptive field (STRF) is a functional descriptor of the linear processing
of time-varying acoustic spectra by the auditory system. By cross-correlating sustained …

Single unit recordings have provided us with a basis for understanding the auditory system,
especially about how it behaves under stimulation with simple sounds such as clicks and …

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 …

The application of a particular branch of non-linear system analysis, the functional series
expansion or integral method, to the auditory system is reviewed. Both the Volterra and …

Studies dealing with auditory information processing often present the dynamic spectrum of
the sound stimulus (sonogram) in addition to the stimulus waveform. The sonogram …

The spectrotemporal receptive field (STRF) provides a versatile and integrated, spectral and
temporal, functional characterization of single cells in primary auditory cortex (AI). In this …