Although Weber's law is the most firmly established regularity in sensation, no principled
way has been identified to choose between its many proposed explanations. We …

A goal in visual neuroscience is to explain how neurons respond to natural scenes.
However, neurons are generally tested using simpler stimuli, often because they can be …

Temporary conductive hearing loss (CHL) can lead to hearing impairments that persist
beyond resolution of the CHL. In particular, unilateral CHL leads to deficits in auditory skills …

To optimize visual search, humans attend to objects with the expected size of the sought
target relative to its surrounding scene (object-scene scale consistency). We investigate how …

Neural decoding is a tool for understanding how activities from a population of neurons
inside the brain relate to the outside world and for engineering applications such as brain …

Two of the cues to sound source location in azimuth are the interaural difference in level
(ILD) and time (ITD). ILDs result from the frequency-and direction-dependent modifications …

According to the efficient coding hypothesis, sensory neurons are adapted to provide
maximal information about the environment, given some biophysical constraints. In early …

Sensory performance is constrained by the information in the stimulus and the precision of
the involved sensory system (s). Auditory spatial acuity is robust across a broad range of …

Sound localization relies on minute differences in the timing and intensity of sound arriving
at both ears. Neurons of the lateral superior olive (LSO) in the brainstem process these …

Early sensory experience can exert lasting perceptual consequences. For example, a brief
period of auditory deprivation early in life can lead to persistent spatial hearing deficits …