We might be forced to listen to a high-frequency tone at our audiologist's office or we might
enjoy falling asleep with a white-noise machine, but the sounds that really matter to us are …

Over the last two decades, a vast literature has described the influence of neuromodulatory
systems on the responses of sensory cortex neurons (review in Gu,; Edeline,; Weinberger,; …

The neural mechanisms that support speech discrimination in noisy conditions are poorly
understood. In quiet conditions, spike timing information appears to be used in the …

In all sensory modalities, intracortical inhibition shapes the functional properties of cortical
neurons but also influences the responses to natural stimuli. Studies performed in various …

A major goal in auditory neuroscience is to characterize how communication sounds are
represented at the cortical level. The present review aims at investigating the role of auditory …

Vocal communication is an important aspect of guinea pig behaviour and a large contributor
to their acoustic environment. We postulated that some cortical areas have distinctive roles …

Sound discrimination is essential in many species for communicating and foraging. Bats, for
example, use sounds for echolocation and communication. In the bat auditory cortex there …

In whisking rodents, object location is encoded at the receptor level by a combination of
motor and sensory related signals. Recoding of the encoded signals can result in various …

Perception of vocalizations and other behaviorally relevant sounds requires integrating
acoustic information over hundreds of milliseconds. Sound-evoked activity in auditory cortex …

Recording simultaneous activity of a large number of neurons in distributed neuronal
networks is crucial to understand higher order brain functions. We demonstrate the in vivo …