The cognitive concept of representation plays a key role in theories of brain information
processing. However, linking neuronal activity to representational content and cognitive …

A major challenge for systems neuroscience is to break the neural code. Computational
algorithms for encoding information into neural activity and extracting information from …

A core goal of auditory neuroscience is to build quantitative models that predict cortical
responses to natural sounds. Reasoning that a complete model of auditory cortex must solve …

Recognizing sounds implicates the cerebral transformation of input waveforms into semantic
representations. Although past research identified the superior temporal gyrus (STG) as a …

The organization of human auditory cortex remains unresolved, due in part to the small
stimulus sets common to fMRI studies and the overlap of neural populations within voxels …

Humans possess a remarkable ability to attend to a single speaker's voice in a multi-talker
background,,. How the auditory system manages to extract intelligible speech under such …

The fundamental perceptual unit in hearing is the'auditory object'. Similar to visual objects,
auditory objects are the computational result of the auditory system's capacity to detect …

How the brain processes complex sounds, like voices or musical instrument sounds, is
currently not well understood. The features comprising the acoustic profiles of such sounds …

In functional brain mapping, pattern recognition methods allow detecting multivoxel patterns
of brain activation which are informative with respect to a subject's perceptual or cognitive …

Auditory cortical processing of complex meaningful sounds entails the transformation of
sensory (tonotopic) representations of incoming acoustic waveforms into higher-level sound …