Brain functions are fundamental for the survival of organisms, and they are supported by
neural circuits consisting of a variety of neurons. To investigate the function of neurons at the …

The contactin-associated protein-like 2 gene, CNTNAP2, is a highly penetrant risk gene
thought to play a role in the genetic etiology of language-related disorders, such as autism …

The brain operates surprisingly well despite the noisy nature of individual neurons. The
central mechanism for noise mitigation in the nervous system is thought to involve averaging …

Cortical neurons are heterogeneous in their functional properties. This heterogeneity is
fundamental for the processing of different features of sensory information. However …

Accurate perception of time-variant pitch is important for speech recognition, particularly for
tonal languages with different lexical tones such as Mandarin, in which different tones …

It is well known that auditory experience during early development shapes response
properties of auditory cortex (AC) neurons, influencing, for example, tonotopical …

Both primary auditory cortex (A1) and anterior auditory field (AAF) are core regions of
auditory cortex of many mammalians. While the function of A1 has been well documented …

Neurophysiological studies have shown that there is a close relationship between spikes
and local field potential (LFP), which reflects crucial neural coding information. In this paper …

Frequency and intensity are two independent attributes of sound stimuli. Psychoacoustic
studies have found that the sound intensity can affect the perception of frequency; however …

In the neocortex, interaction and cooperation between different areas are important for
information processing, which also applies to different areas within one sensory modality. In …