In ordinary listening environments, acoustic signals reaching the ears directly from real
sound sources are followed after a few milliseconds by early reflections arriving from nearby …

Spatial hearing, and more specifically the ability to localize sounds in space, is one of the
most studied and best understood aspects of hearing. Because there is no coding of …

A sound embedded in an acoustic stream cannot be unambiguously segmented and
identified without reference to its stimulus context. To understand the role of stimulus context …

In a complex auditory scene, a “cocktail party” for example, listeners can disentangle
multiple competing sequences of sounds. A recent psychophysical study in our laboratory …

Auditory neurons are often described in terms of their spectrotemporal receptive fields
(STRFs). These map the relationship between features of the sound spectrogram and firing …

The ability of listeners to localize sound sources has been a subject of great interest to
natural philosophers, physicists, and physiologists (and later to psychophysicists and …

To date, most of the research on spatial attention has focused on probing people's
responses to stimuli presented in frontal space. That is, few researchers have attempted to …

Responses to sound in the auditory cortex are influenced by the preceding history of firing.
We studied the time course of auditory adaptation in primary auditory cortex (A1) from …

Stream segregation enables a listener to disentangle multiple competing sequences of
sounds. A recent study from our laboratory demonstrated that cortical neurons in …

Several auditory spatial illusions, collectively called the precedence effect (PE), occur when
transient sounds are presented from two different spatial locations but separated in time by …