Speech produced by different people varies acoustically because of individual differences in
vocal tract physiology. This acoustic variation in the “same” words of language presents a …

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 …

How natural speech is represented in the auditory cortex constitutes a major challenge for
cognitive neuroscience. Although many single-unit and neuroimaging studies have yielded …

Rainstorms, insect swarms, and galloping horses produce" sound textures"—the collective
result of many similar acoustic events. Sound textures are distinguished by temporal …

We systematically determined which spectrotemporal modulations in speech are necessary
for comprehension by human listeners. Speech comprehension has been shown to be …

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

Functional neuroimaging research provides detailed observations of the response patterns
that natural sounds (eg human voices and speech, animal cries, environmental sounds) …

The principles underlying functional asymmetries in cortex remain debated. For example, it
is accepted that speech is processed bilaterally in auditory cortex, but a left hemisphere …

An ultimate goal of systems neuroscience is to understand how sensory stimuli encountered
in the natural environment are processed by neural circuits. Achieving this goal requires …

Our understanding of nonlinear stimulus transformations by neural circuits is hindered by the
lack of comprehensive yet interpretable computational modeling frameworks. Here, we …