GABAergic interneurons represent∼ 15% to 20% of all cortical neurons, but their diversity
grants them unique roles in cortical circuits. In the barrel cortex, responses of excitatory …

Animals sense sounds through hierarchical neural pathways that ultimately reach higher-
order cortices to extract complex acoustic features, such as vocalizations. Elucidating how …

Surround suppression (SS) is a fundamental property of sensory processing throughout the
brain. In the auditory system, the early processing stream encodes sounds using a one …

As we interact with our surroundings, we encounter the same or similar objects from different
perspectives and are compelled to generalize. For example, despite their variety we …

Perception can be highly dependent on stimulus context, but whether and how sensory
areas encode the context remains uncertain. We used an ambiguous auditory stimulus-a …

The relationship between ratios of excitatory to inhibitory neurons and the brain's dynamic
range of cortical activity is crucial. However, its full understanding within the context of …

The sensory world is dynamic and constantly changing. The ability to react appropriately to
these changes relies on the continuous and timely cortical processing of immediate sensory …

There are two theories of how the neocortex processes sound. The feature detection theory
posits that cortical neurons process sound to extract its features, whereas, in the decoding …

Abstract (DE) In dieser Arbeit untersuche ich die hemisphärischen Spezialisierungen des
frühen auditorischen cortikalen Systems bei Säugetieren, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf der …

As we interact with our surroundings, we encounter the same or similar objects from different
perspectives and are compelled to generalize. For example, despite their variety we …