The cortical representation of the acoustic features of continuous speech is the foundation of
speech perception. In this study, noninvasive magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings …

Are visual and auditory stimuli processed by similar mechanisms in the human cerebral
cortex? Images can be thought of as light energy modulations over two spatial dimensions …

The relationship between a sound and its neural representation in the auditory cortex
remains elusive. Simple measures such as the frequency response area or frequency tuning …

Humans are born into a social environment and from early on possess a range of abilities to
detect and respond to social cues. In the past decade, there has been a rapidly increasing …

Complex natural and environmental sounds, such as speech and music, convey information
along both spectral and temporal dimensions. The cortical representation of such stimuli …

Auditory neurons are often described in terms of their spectrotemporal receptive fields
(STRFs). These map the relationship between features of the sound spectrogram and firing …

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can provide powerful and flexible models of neural
sensory processing. However, the utility of CNNs in studying the auditory system has been …

Both generalized arousal and engagement in a specific task influence sensory neural
processing. To isolate effects of these state variables in the auditory system, we recorded …

The organization of postthalamic auditory areas remains unclear in many respects. Using a
stimulus based on properties of natural sounds, we mapped spectro-temporal receptive …

The recent characterization of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic receptive fields in rat
auditory cortex laid the basis for further investigation of the roles of synaptic excitation and …