Social animals must detect, evaluate and respond to the emotional states of other
individuals in their group. A constellation of gestures, vocalizations, and chemosignals …

Our ability to make sense of the auditory world results from neural processing that begins in
the ear, goes through multiple subcortical areas, and continues in the cortex. The specific …

Natural sounds have rich spectrotemporal dynamics. Spectral information is spatially
represented in the auditory cortex (ACX) via large-scale maps. However, the representation …

The mouse auditory cortex (ACtx) contains two core fields—primary auditory cortex (A1) and
anterior auditory field (AAF)—arranged in a mirror reversal tonotopic gradient. The best …

Driving perception by direct activation of neural ensembles in cortex is a necessary step for
achieving a causal understanding of the neural code for auditory perception and developing …

Detecting the direction of frequency modulation (FM) is essential for vocal communication in
both animals and humans. Direction-selective firing of neurons in the primary auditory cortex …

Highlights•Auditory cortex nonlinearly structures auditory information.•Invariant and discrete
codes for auditory objects emerge in auditory cortex.•Behavioral context bidirectionally …

The key assumption of the predictive coding framework is that internal representations are
used to generate predictions on how the sensory input will look like in the immediate future …

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

Understanding computational principles in hierarchically organized sensory systems
requires functional parcellation of brain structures and their precise targeting for …