How natural speech is represented in the auditory cortex constitutes a major challenge for
cognitive neuroscience. Although many single-unit and neuroimaging studies have yielded …

Anthropogenic noise is an increasing threat to marine mammals that rely on sound for
communication, navigation, detecting prey and predators, and finding mates. Auditory …

Over the last two decades, a vast literature has described the influence of neuromodulatory
systems on the responses of sensory cortex neurons (review in Gu,; Edeline,; Weinberger,; …

Speech perception consists of a set of computations that take continuously varying acoustic
waveforms as input and generate discrete representations that make contact with the lexical …

The timing of action potentials relative to sensory stimuli can be precise down to
milliseconds in the visual system,,,,,,, even though the relevant timescales of natural vision …

Combining information across different sensory modalities can greatly facilitate our ability to
detect, discriminate, or recognize sensory stimuli [1, 2]. Although this process of sensory …

Neural activity in the cerebral cortex can explain many aspects of sensory perception.
Extensive psychophysical and neurophysiological studies of visual motion and vibrotactile …

Natural sounds convey perceptually relevant information over multiple timescales, and the
necessary extraction of multi-timescale information requires the auditory system to work over …

Efficient sensory coding implies that populations of neurons should represent information-
rich aspects of a signal with little redundancy. Recent studies have shown that neural …

Plasticity studies suggest that behavioral relevance can change the cortical processing of
trained or conditioned sensory stimuli. However, whether this occurs in the context of natural …