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 …

Temporal information in acoustic signals is important for the perception of environmental
sounds, including speech. This review focuses on several aspects of temporal processing …

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

By definition, sounds are physical events that are distributed in time. It follows from this that
the faithful neural encoding of a sound requires that the nervous system in some way …

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 …

Because auditory cortical neurons have limited stimulus-synchronized responses, cortical
representations of more rapidly occurring but still perceivable stimuli remain unclear. Here …

The representation of rapid acoustic transients by the auditory cortex is a fundamental issue
that is still unresolved. Auditory cortical neurons have been shown to be limited in their …

Temporal modulations are fundamental components of human speech and animal
communication sounds. Understanding their representations in the auditory cortex is a …

It is commonly assumed that, in the cochlea and the brainstem, the auditory system
processes speech sounds without differentiating them from any other sounds. At some …