Adaptation occurs in a variety of forms in all sensory systems, motivating the question: what
is its purpose? A productive approach has been to hypothesize that adaptation helps neural …

We might be forced to listen to a high-frequency tone at our audiologist's office or we might
enjoy falling asleep with a white-noise machine, but the sounds that really matter to us are …

Speech recognition is remarkably robust to the listening background, even when the energy
of background sounds strongly overlaps with that of speech. How the brain transforms the …

In humans, listening to speech evokes neural responses in the motor cortex. This has been
controversially interpreted as evidence that speech sounds are processed as articulatory …

Abstract System identification is a growing approach to sensory neurophysiology that
facilitates the development of quantitative functional models of sensory processing. This …

human hearing depends on a combination of cognitive and sensory processes that function
by means of an interactive circuitry of bottom-up and top-down neural pathways, extending …

Just-noticeable differences of physical parameters are often limited by the resolution of the
peripheral sensory apparatus. Thus, two-point discrimination in vision is limited by the size …

The relationship between a sound and its neural representation in the auditory cortex
remains elusive. Simple measures such as the frequency response area or frequency tuning …

In the auditory system, the stimulus-response properties of single neurons are often
described in terms of the spectrotemporal receptive field (STRF), a linear kernel relating the …

Adaptively optimizing experiments has the potential to significantly reduce the number of
trials needed to build parametric statistical models of neural systems. However, application …