Cortical activity patterns predict speech discrimination ability

CT Engineer, CA Perez, YTH Chen, RS Carraway… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
Neural activity in the cerebral cortex can explain many aspects of sensory perception.
Extensive psychophysical and neurophysiological studies of visual motion and vibrotactile …

[图书][B] The auditory cortex

JA Winer, CE Schreiner - 2010 - books.google.com
There has been substantial progress in understanding the contributions of the auditory
forebrain to hearing, sound localization, communication, emotive behavior, and cognition …

Comparison Between Offset and Onset Responses of Primary Auditory Cortex onoff Neurons in Awake Cats

L Qin, S Chimoto, M Sakai… - Journal of …, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
Primary auditory cortex (A1) neurons are believed not to carry much information about tonal
offsets because A1 neurons in barbiturate-anesthetized animals are usually described as …

Spectrotemporal receptive fields in anesthetized cat primary auditory cortex are context dependent

B Gourévitch, A Noreña, G Shaw… - Cerebral …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
In order to investigate how the auditory scene is analyzed and perceived, auditory
spectrotemporal receptive fields (STRFs) are generally used as a convenient way to …

Temporal symmetry in primary auditory cortex: implications for cortical connectivity

JZ Simon, DA Depireux, DJ Klein, JB Fritz… - Neural …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neurons in primary auditory cortex (AI) in the ferret (Mustela putorius) that are well described
by their spectrotemporal response field (STRF) are found also to have a distinctive property …

Spectral processing in auditory cortex

CE Schreiner, RC Froemke, CA Atencio - The auditory cortex, 2011 - Springer
Historically, the main purpose of the auditory system has been interpreted as a frequency
analyzer (Ohm 1843; von Helmholtz 1863) that provides a faithful spectral representation of …

Representations of cat meows and human vowels in the primary auditory cortex of awake cats

L Qin, JY Wang, Y Sato - Journal of neurophysiology, 2008 - journals.physiology.org
Previous investigation of neural responses to cat meows in the primary auditory cortex (A1)
of the anesthetized cat revealed a preponderance of phasic responses aligned to stimulus …

Interaction of excitatory and inhibitory frequency-receptive fields in determining fundamental frequency sensitivity of primary auditory cortex neurons in awake cats

L Qin, M Sakai, S Chimoto, Y Sato - Cerebral Cortex, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Harmonic complex tones produce pitch-height perception corresponding to the fundamental
frequency (F0). This study investigates how the spectral cue of F0 is processed in neurons of …

Differential representation of spectral and temporal information by primary auditory cortex neurons in awake cats: relevance to auditory scene analysis

M Sakai, S Chimoto, L Qin, Y Sato - Brain research, 2009 - Elsevier
We investigated how the primary auditory cortex (AI) neurons encode the two major
requisites for auditory scene analysis, ie, spectral and temporal information. Single-unit …

The bi-level input processing model of first and second language perception

I Grenon - 2010 - dspace.library.uvic.ca
The focus of the current work is the articulation of a model of speech sound perception,
which is informed by neurological processing, and which accounts for psycholinguistic …