Sensorineural hearing loss induced by noise or ototoxic drug exposure reduces the neural
activity transmitted from the cochlea to the central auditory system. Despite a reduced …

Cortical processing reflects the interplay of synaptic excitation and synaptic inhibition.
Rapidly accumulating evidence is highlighting the crucial role of inhibition in shaping …

Although we have convincing evidence that attention to auditory stimuli modulates neuronal
responses at or before the level of primary auditory cortex (A1), the underlying physiological …

Neurons in the primary auditory cortex are tuned to the intensity and specific frequencies of
sounds, but the synaptic mechanisms underlying this tuning remain uncertain. Inhibition …

Cortical sensory processing is modulated by behavioral and cognitive states. How this
modulation is achieved by changing synaptic circuits remains largely unknown. In awake …

Lateral inhibition is a fundamental circuit operation that sharpens the tuning properties of
cortical neurons. This operation is classically attributed to an increase in GABAergic synaptic …

The right hemispheric lateralization of face recognition, which is well documented and
appears to be specific to the human species, remains a scientific mystery. According to a …

The current review constitutes the first comprehensive look at the possibility that the
mismatch negativity (MMN, the deflection of the auditory ERP/ERF elicited by stimulus …

Neurons in primary auditory cortex (A1) of cats show strong stimulus-specific adaptation
(SSA). In probabilistic settings, in which one stimulus is common and another is rare …

Synaptic inhibition, brought about by a rich variety of interneuron types, counters excitation,
modulates the gain, timing, tuning, bursting properties of principal cell firing, and exerts …