The inferior colliculus (IC) is a major processing center situated mid-way along both the
ascending and descending auditory pathways of the brain stem. Although it is fundamentally …

The auditory midbrain implant (AMI) is a new hearing prosthesis designed for stimulation of
the inferior colliculus in deaf patients who cannot sufficiently benefit from cochlear implants …

An important question in sensory neuroscience is what coding strategies and mechanisms
are used by the brain to detect and discriminate among behaviorally relevant stimuli. There …

Early in auditory processing, neural responses faithfully reflect acoustic input. At higher
stages of auditory processing, however, neurons become selective for particular call types …

In addition to ascending auditory inputs, the external cortex of the inferior colliculus (ICX)
receives prominent somatosensory inputs. To elucidate the extent of interaction between …

Guinea pigs have been used in diverse studies to better understand acquired hearing loss
induced by noise and ototoxic drugs. The guinea pig has its best hearing at slightly higher …

Harmonic complex tones elicit a pitch sensation at their fundamental frequency (F0), even
when their spectrum contains no energy at F0, a phenomenon known as “pitch of the …

Vocalizations are behaviorally critical sounds and this behavioral importance is reflected in
the ascending auditory system, where conspecific vocalizations are increasingly over …

Humans and vocal animals use vocalizations to communicate with members of their
species. A necessary function of auditory perception is to generalize across the high …

In this review we focus on the exciting new opportunities in comparative neuroscience to
study neural processes of vocal social perception by comparing dog and human neural …