Neuronal responses in auditory cortex show a fascinating mixture of characteristics that
span the range from almost perfect copies of physical aspects of the stimuli to extremely …

The timing of the first, and sometimes only, spike of auditory neurons evoked by an acoustic
stimulus depends on a variety of parameters. Recent studies have suggested that several of …

The most salient acoustic features in speech are the modulations in its intensity, captured by
the amplitude envelope. Perceptually, the envelope is necessary for speech …

Neurons in sensory cortices are often assumed to be “feature detectors”, computing simple
and then successively more complex features out of the incoming sensory stream. These …

Humans and animals detect low-level tones masked by slowly fluctuating noise very
efficiently. A possible neuronal correlate of this phenomenon is the ability of low-level tones …

Acoustic processing requires integration over time. We have used in vivo intracellular
recording to measure neuronal integration times in anesthetized rats. Using natural sounds …

Highlights•Sound perception in noisy environments is a major challenge for the auditory
system.•Adaptation to sound statistics helps to form noise-tolerant neural representations.• …

A pure tone evokes propagating activities in a strip of the primary auditory cortex (AI), an
isofrequency strip (IS). A fundamental issue concerns the roles that thalamocortical input …

Pitch is one of the most important features of natural sounds, underlying the perception of
melody in music and prosody in speech. However, the temporal dynamics of pitch …

We propose a model of the primary auditory cortex (A1), in which each iso-frequency column
is represented by a recurrent neural network with short-term synaptic depression. Such …