Our sense of touch emerges from an array of mechanosensory structures residing within the
fabric of our skin. These tactile end organ structures convert innocuous forces acting on the …

A celebrated and controversial hypothesis suggests that some biological systems—parts,
aspects, or groups of them—may extract important functional benefits from operating at the …

Music is core to human experience, yet the precise neural dynamics underlying music
perception remain unknown. We analyzed a unique intracranial electroencephalography …

Understanding how brains process sensory signals in natural environments is one of the key
goals of twenty-first century neuroscience. While brain imaging and invasive …

Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying
increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged …

How humans solve the cocktail party problem remains unknown. However, progress has
been made recently thanks to the realization that cortical activity tracks the amplitude …

We introduce a parametric nonlinear transformation that is well-suited for Gaussianizing
data from natural images. The data are linearly transformed, and each component is then …

Auditory stimulus reconstruction is a technique that finds the best approximation of the
acoustic stimulus from the population of evoked neural activity. Reconstructing speech from …

Theoretical neuroscience provides a quantitative basis for describing what nervous systems
do, determining how they function, and uncovering the general principles by which they …

How the human auditory system extracts perceptually relevant acoustic features of speech is
unknown. To address this question, we used intracranial recordings from nonprimary …