Vocal communication requires the formation of acoustic categories to enable invariant
representations of sounds despite superficial variations. Humans form acoustic categories …

A controversial issue in neurolinguistics is whether basic neural auditory representations
found in many animals can account for human perception of speech. This question was …

Categorical perception is a fundamental cognitive function enabling animals to flexibly
assign sounds into behaviorally relevant categories. This study investigates the nature of …

The division of continuously variable acoustic signals into discrete perceptual categories is a
fundamental feature of vocal communication, including human speech. Despite the …

Categorization enables listeners to efficiently encode and respond to auditory stimuli.
Behavioral evidence for auditory categorization has been well documented across a broad …

Understanding how the brain extracts the behavioral meaning carried by specific
vocalization types that can be emitted by various vocalizers and in different conditions is a …

Animal communication sounds contain spectrotemporal fluctuations that provide powerful
cues for detection and discrimination. Human perception of speech is influenced both by …

Over the past decade, renewed interest in the auditory system has resulted in a surge of
anatomical and physiological research in the primate auditory cortex and its targets …

Humans readily distinguish spoken words that closely resemble each other in acoustic
structure, irrespective of audible differences between individual voices or sex of the …

Portions of this work were presented in “Selective responses in the zebra finch auditory
cortex reflect the time course of salient information” at the Society of Neuroscience Annual …