Human cognitive abilities are generally thought to arise from cortical expansion over the
course of human brain evolution. In addition to increased neuron numbers, this cortical …

Epidemiological studies identify midlife hearing loss as an independent risk factor for
dementia, estimated to account for 9% of cases. We evaluate candidate brain bases for this …

Recognizing sounds implicates the cerebral transformation of input waveforms into semantic
representations. Although past research identified the superior temporal gyrus (STG) as a …

Odor perception is inherently subjective. Previous work has shown that odorous molecules
evoke distributed activity patterns in olfactory cortices, but how these patterns map on to …

Animal acoustic communication often takes the form of complex sequences, made up of
multiple distinct acoustic units. Apart from the well‐known example of birdsong, other …

To derive meaning from speech, we must extract multiple dimensions of concurrent
information from incoming speech signals. That is, equally important to processing phonetic …

Models that predict brain responses to stimuli provide one measure of understanding of a
sensory system and have many potential applications in science and engineering. Deep …

Listening to speech is often demanding because of signal degradations and the presence of
distracting sounds (ie,“noise”). The question how the brain achieves the task of extracting …

Here, we present a new perspective on an old question: how does the neurobiology of
human language relate to brain systems in nonhuman primates? We argue that higher-order …

The ability to extract deep structures from auditory sequences is a fundamental prerequisite
of language acquisition. Using fMRI in untrained macaques and humans, we investigated …