It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

Any account of “what is special about the human brain”(Passingham 2008) must specify the
neural basis of our unique ability to produce speech and delineate how these remarkable …

Spoken word recognition requires complex, invariant representations. Using a meta-analytic
approach incorporating more than 100 functional imaging experiments, we show that …

How the brain processes complex sounds, like voices or musical instrument sounds, is
currently not well understood. The features comprising the acoustic profiles of such sounds …

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 …

The organization of tonotopic fields in human auditory cortex was investigated using
functional magnetic resonance imaging. Subjects were presented with stochastically …

Auditory processing in the cerebral cortex is comprised of an interconnected network of
auditory and auditory-related areas distributed throughout the forebrain. The nexus of …

Functional neuroimaging research provides detailed observations of the response patterns
that natural sounds (eg human voices and speech, animal cries, environmental sounds) …

The execution of complex visual, auditory, and linguistic behaviors requires a dynamic
interplay between spatial ('where/how') and non-spatial ('what') information processed along …

Speech comprehension relies on temporal cues contained in the speech envelope, and the
auditory cortex has been implicated as playing a critical role in encoding this temporal …