Since the early days of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), retinotopic mapping
emerged as a powerful and widely-accepted tool, allowing the identification of individual …

How and which aspects of neural activity give rise to subjective perceptual experience—ie
conscious perception—is a fundamental question of neuroscience. To date, the vast majority …

Columnar arrangements of neurons with similar preference have been suggested as the
fundamental processing units of the cerebral cortex. Within these columnar arrangements …

Multisensory interactions are the norm in perception, and an abundance of research on the
interaction and integration of the senses has demonstrated the importance of combining …

Cocktail parties, busy streets, and other noisy environments pose a difficult challenge to the
auditory system: how to focus attention on selected sounds while ignoring others? Neurons …

Auditory cortex is the first cortical region of the human brain to process sounds. However, it
has recently been shown that its neurons also fire in the absence of direct sensory input …

The way top-down and bottom-up processes interact to shape our perception and behaviour
is a fundamental question and remains highly controversial. How early in a processing …

Singing has been a characteristic behaviour of humanity across several millennia. Chorus
America (2009) estimated that 42.6 million adults and children regularly sing in one of …

Humans can mentally represent auditory information without an external stimulus, but the
specificity of these internal representations remains unclear. Here, we asked how similar the …

Auditory selective attention is vital in natural soundscapes. But it is unclear how attentional
focus on the primary dimension of auditory representation—acoustic frequency—might …