Listening in complex sound environments requires rapid segregation of different sound
sources, eg, having a conversation with multiple speakers or other environmental sounds …

Cognitive systems face a constant tension of maintaining existing representations that have
been fine-tuned to long-term input regularities and adapting representations to meet the …

An information theoretic framework is proposed to have the potential to dissolve (rather than
attempt to solve) multiple long-standing problems concerning speech perception. By this …

Segregation of complex sounds such as speech, animal vocalizations, and music
simultaneously emanating from multiple sources, referred to as the cocktail party problem is …

Understanding the effects of statistical regularities on speech processing is a central issue in
auditory neuroscience. To investigate the effects of distributional covariance on the neural …

Speech perception, like all perception, takes place in context. Recognition of a given speech
sound is influenced by the acoustic properties of surrounding sounds. When the spectral …

Speech is a complex, redundant and variable signal happening in a noisy and ever
changing world. How do listeners navigate these complex auditory scenes and continuously …

Sensory cortical neurons can nonlinearly integrate a wide range of inputs. The outcome of
this nonlinear process can be approximated by more than one receptive field component or …

Perceptual systems are constrained by their information transmission capacity. Accordingly,
organismal strategies for compressing environmental information have been the subject of …

Research suggests that the auditory system rapidly and efficiently encodes statistical
structure of acoustic information through passive exposure. We investigated how exposure …