Adaptation is an essential feature of auditory neurons, which reduces their responses to
unchanging and recurring sounds and allows their response properties to be matched to the …

Our ability to make sense of the auditory world results from neural processing that begins in
the ear, goes through multiple subcortical areas, and continues in the cortex. The specific …

The decoding of selective auditory attention from noninvasive electroencephalogram (EEG)
data is of interest in brain computer interface and auditory perception research. The current …

Beat perception and synchronization within 120 to 140 beats/min (BPM) are common in
humans and frequently used in music composition. Why beat synchronization is uncommon …

Neural adaptation is central to sensation. Neurons in auditory midbrain, for example, rapidly
adapt their firing rates to enhance coding precision of common sound intensities. However, it …

A central goal of sensory neuroscience is to construct models that can explain neural
responses to natural stimuli. As a consequence, sensory models are often tested by …

Neurons in sensory cortex are tuned to diverse features in natural scenes. But what
determines which features neurons become selective to? Here we explore the idea that …

Rich, dynamic, and dense sensory stimuli are encoded within the nervous system by the
time-varying activity of many individual neurons. A fundamental approach to understanding …

Sounds are processed by the ear and central auditory pathway. These processing steps are
biologically complex, and many aspects of the transformation from sound waveforms to …

Cortical sensory neurons are commonly characterized using the receptive field, the linear
dependence of their response on the stimulus. In primary auditory cortex neurons can be …