In contrast to the visual system, the auditory system has longer subcortical pathways and
more spiking synapses between the peripheral receptors and the cortex. This unique …

How does auditory cortex represent auditory stimuli, and how do these representations
contribute to behavior? Recent experimental evidence suggests that activity in auditory …

The auditory cortex is critical for perceiving a sound's location. However, there is no
topographic representation of acoustic space, and individual auditory cortical neurons are …

How the brain processes temporal information embedded in sounds is a core question in
auditory research. This article synthesizes recent studies from our laboratory regarding …

Work on the functional organization of auditory cortex in nonhuman primates has recently
gained increasing attention. Neurophysiological studies using complex stimuli, combined …

The auditory system extracts behaviorally relevant information from acoustic stimuli. The
average activity in auditory cortex is known to be sensitive to spectro-temporal patterns in …

The auditory cortex is typically defined as that portion of the cortex containing neurons that
respond to sound. This definition is adequate in a narrow context, but does not take into …

Background While human auditory cortex is known to contain tonotopically organized
auditory cortical fields (ACFs), little is known about how processing in these fields is …

How the cerebral cortex encodes auditory features of biologically important sounds,
including speech and music, is one of the most important questions in auditory …

Recordings of single neurons have yielded great insights into the way acoustic stimuli are
represented in auditory cortex. However, any one neuron functions as part of a population …