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 …

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 …

Cortical processing of auditory stimuli involves large populations of neurons with distinct
individual response profiles. However, the functional organization and dynamics of local …

Recent studies, conducted almost exclusively in primates, have shown that several cortical
areas usually associated with modality-specific sensory processing are subject to influences …

The sensory areas of the cerebral cortex possess multiple topographic representations of
sensory dimensions. The gradient of frequency selectivity (tonotopy) is the dominant …

The auditory cortex of the rat is becoming an increasingly popular model system for studies
of experience-dependent receptive field plasticity. However, the relative position of various …

Top-down signals from frontal cortex are thought to be important in cognitive control of
sensory processing. To explore this interaction, we compared activity in ferret frontal cortex …

Attention is essential for navigating complex acoustic scenes, when the listener seeks to
extract a foreground source while suppressing background acoustic clutter. This study …

Auditory experience leads to myriad changes in processing in the central auditory system.
We recently described task-related plasticity characterized by rapid modulation of spectro …

A variety of attention-related effects have been demonstrated in primary auditory cortex (A1).
However, an understanding of the functional role of higher auditory cortical areas in guiding …