Sensory processing is frequently conceptualized as a linear flow of information from
peripheral receptors through hierarchically organized brain regions, ultimately reaching the …

Sound information is transmitted from the ear to central auditory stations of the brain via
several nuclei. In addition to these ascending pathways there exist descending projections …

Children who have listening difficulties (LiD) despite having normal audiometry are often
diagnosed as having an auditory processing disorder. A lack of evidence regarding …

Learning can induce neurophysiological plasticity in the auditory cortex at multiple
timescales. Lasting changes to auditory cortical function that persist over days, weeks, or …

The inferior colliculus (IC), the midbrain auditory integration center, analyzes information
about social vocalizations and provides substrates for higher level processing of vocal …

The inferior colliculus (IC), a midbrain hub for integration of auditory information, receives
dense cholinergic input that could modulate nearly all aspects of hearing. A key step in …

Neural responses to acoustic stimulation have long been studied throughout the auditory
system to understand how sound information is coded for perception. Within the inferior …

What is noise? When does a sound form part of the acoustic background and when might it
come to our attention as part of the foreground? Our brain seems to filter out irrelevant …

The primary auditory cortex (ACtx) is critically involved in the association of sensory
information with specific behavioral outcomes. Such sensory-guided behaviors are …

Analysing complex auditory scenes depends in part on learning the long-term statistical
structure of sounds comprising those scenes. One way in which the listening brain achieves …