Highlights•Auditory midbrain and thalamus support predictive coding and speech
encoding.•Corticofugal projections are involved, but their specific roles need to be …

Myelinating oligodendrocytes enable fast propagation of action potentials along the
ensheathed axons. In addition, oligodendrocytes play diverse non-canonical roles including …

Simple Summary The listening brain must resolve the mix of sounds that reaches our ears
into events, sources, and meanings. In this process, noise—sound that interferes with our …

Hearing depends on extracting frequency, intensity, and temporal properties from sound to
generate an auditory map for acoustical signal processing. How physiology intersects with …

The relative importance or saliency of sensory inputs depend on the animal's environmental
context and the behavioural responses to these same inputs can vary over time. Here we …

Hearing involves analyzing the physical attributes of sounds and integrating the results of
this analysis with other sensory, cognitive, and motor variables in order to guide adaptive …

Associative learning of pure tones is known to cause tonotopic map expansion in the
auditory cortex (ACx), but the function this plasticity sub-serves is unclear. We developed an …

Abnormalities in synaptic inhibition play a critical role in psychiatric disorders, and
accordingly, it is essential to understand the molecular mechanisms linking components of …

The use of head fixation in mice is increasingly common in research, its use having initially
been restricted to the field of sensory neuroscience. Head restraint has often been combined …

Sensory systems preferentially strengthen responses to stimuli based on their reliability at
conveying accurate information. While previous reports demonstrate that the brain reweighs …