Cholinergic synapses are ubiquitous in the human central nervous system. Their high
density in the thalamus, striatum, limbic system, and neocortex suggest that cholinergic …

Cortical development is dependent on stimulus-driven learning. The absence of sensory
input from birth, as occurs in congenital deafness, affects normal growth and connectivity …

Most of our knowledge about the functional organization of neuronal systems is based on
the analysis of the firing patterns of individual neurons that have been recorded one by one …

▪ Abstract A complete understanding of sensory and motor processing requires
characterization of how the nervous system processes time in the range of tens to hundreds …

Joris, PX, CE Schreiner, and A. Rees. Neural Processing of Amplitude-Modulated Sounds.
Physiol Rev 84: 541–577, 2004; 10.1152/physrev. 00029.2003.—Amplitude modulation …

We investigated the hypothesis that task performance can rapidly and adaptively reshape
cortical receptive field properties in accord with specific task demands and salient sensory …

Using magnetoencephalography (MEG), we compared the processing of sinusoidal tones in
the auditory cortex of 12 non-musicians, 12 professional musicians and 13 amateur …

The main aim of the present experiment was to determine whether extensive musical
training facilitates pitch contour processing not only in music but also in language. We used …

Bilingualism profoundly affects the brain, yielding functional and structural changes in
cortical regions dedicated to language processing and executive function [Crinion J, et …

Speech comprehension depends on the integrity of both the spectral content and temporal
envelope of the speech signal. Although neural processing underlying spectral analysis has …