Everyday environments often contain multiple concurrent sound sources that fluctuate over
time. Normally hearing listeners can benefit from high signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) in …

Humans and animals maintain accurate sound discrimination in the presence of loud
sources of background noise. It is commonly assumed that this ability relies on the …

Auditory nerve fibers (ANFs) convey acoustic information from the sensory cells to the
brainstem using an elaborated neural code based on both spike timing and rate. As the …

Neurons in auditory cortex are central to our perception of sounds. However, the underlying
neural codes, and the relevance of millisecond-precise spike timing in particular, remain …

Hearing in noise is a problem often assumed to depend on encoding of energy level by
channels tuned to target frequencies, but few studies have tested this hypothesis. The …

The ability to discriminate between complex natural sounds is critical for survival. Changes
in arousal and other aspects of behavioral state can impact the accuracy of sensory coding …

An important step toward understanding how the brain represents complex natural sounds is
to develop accurate models of auditory coding by single neurons. A commonly used model …

Introduction Hearing ability is usually evaluated by assessing the lowest detectable intensity
of a target sound, commonly referred to as a detection threshold. Detection thresholds of a …

Auditory nerve fibers (ANFs) encode pure tones through two modes of coding, spike time
and spike rate, depending on the tone frequency. In response to a low-frequency tone, ANF …

Temporal sound cues are essential for sound recognition, pitch, rhythm, and timbre
perception, yet how auditory neurons encode such cues is subject of ongoing debate. Rate …