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 …

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

The modulation statistics of natural sound ensembles were analyzed by calculating the
probability distributions of the amplitude envelope of the sounds and their time-frequency …

Vocal communicators discriminate conspecific vocalizations from other sounds and
recognize the vocalizations of individuals. To identify neural mechanisms for the …

Neural activity in the cerebral cortex can explain many aspects of sensory perception.
Extensive psychophysical and neurophysiological studies of visual motion and vibrotactile …

Speech has long been thought of as a uniquely defining characteristic of humans. Yet song
birds, like humans, communicate using learned signals (song, speech) that are acquired …

Songbird auditory neurons must encode the dynamics of natural sounds at many volumes.
We investigated how neural coding depends on the distribution of stimulus intensities. Using …

Vocal learners use early social experience to develop auditory skills specialized for
communication. However, it is unknown where in the auditory pathway neural responses …

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

The auditory CNS is influenced profoundly by sounds heard during development. Auditory
deprivation and augmented sound exposure can each perturb the maturation of neural …