Processing of complex stimuli and natural scenes in the auditory cortex

Auditory Scene Analysis: The Perceptual Organization of Sound

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Brain Structures Differ between Musicians and Non-Musicians

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Mechanisms and streams for processing of “what” and “where” in auditory cortex

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Balanced inhibition underlies tuning and sharpens spike timing in auditory cortex

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Dual streams of auditory afferents target multiple domains in the primate prefrontal cortex

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Processing of low-probability sounds by cortical neurons

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Neural Processing of Amplitude-Modulated Sounds

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Efficiency and ambiguity in an adaptive neural code

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‘Primitive intelligence’ in the auditory cortex

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Rapid task-related plasticity of spectrotemporal receptive fields in primary auditory cortex

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Morphology of Heschl's gyrus reflects enhanced activation in the auditory cortex of musicians

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Environmental Noise Retards Auditory Cortical Development

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Neural correlates of sensory and decision processes in auditory object identification

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Temporal and rate representations of time-varying signals in the auditory cortex of awake primates

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Spectro-Temporal Response Field Characterization With Dynamic Ripples in Ferret Primary Auditory Cortex

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Optimizing Sound Features for Cortical Neurons

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Multiparametric corticofugal modulation and plasticity in the auditory system

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Topography and synaptic shaping of direction selectivity in primary auditory cortex

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Spectrotemporal Receptive Fields in the Lemniscal Auditory Thalamus and Cortex

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Where is 'where' in the human auditory cortex?

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Auditory brainstem responses with optimized chirp signals compensating basilar-membrane dispersion

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Responses of auditory-cortex neurons to structural features of natural sounds

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Linearity of Cortical Receptive Fields Measured with Natural Sounds

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Neural correlates of auditory stream segregation in primary auditory cortex of the awake monkey

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Neuromagnetic evidence for a pitch processing center in Heschl's gyrus

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Spectrotemporal Structure of Receptive Fields in Areas AI and AAF of Mouse Auditory Cortex

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Auditory Thalamocortical Synaptic Transmission In Vitro

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Laminar fine structure of frequency organization in auditory midbrain

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The Spectro-Temporal Receptive Field

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Environmental Enrichment Improves Response Strength, Threshold, Selectivity, and Latency of Auditory Cortex Neurons

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Intracortical Pathways Determine Breadth of Subthreshold Frequency Receptive Fields in Primary Auditory Cortex

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The lower limit of melodic pitch

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Sensitivity to Auditory Object Features in Human Temporal Neocortex

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The nucleus basalis and memory codes: Auditory cortical plasticity and the induction of specific, associative behavioral memory

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Dynamics of Precise Spike Timing in Primary Auditory Cortex

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Music and Learning‐Induced Cortical Plasticity

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Primary auditory cortex of cats: feature detection or something else?

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Linear processing of spatial cues in primary auditory cortex

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Effects of Musical Training on the Auditory Cortex in Children

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Responses of Neurons in Cat Primary Auditory Cortex to Bird Chirps: Effects of Temporal and Spectral Context

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Context-Dependent Adaptive Coding of Interaural Phase Disparity in the Auditory Cortex of Awake Macaques

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Auditory Edge Detection: A Neural Model for Physiological and Psychoacoustical Responses to Amplitude Transients

Fishbach, A., Nelken, I., & Yeshurun, Y. (2001) · Journal of Neurophysiology · doi:10.1152/jn.2001.85.6.2303 · Cited by 125 · see citing works

Contrast Tuning in Auditory Cortex

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Sensitivity of neurons in cat primary auditory cortex to tones and frequency-modulated stimuli. I: Effects of variation of stimulus parameters

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Responses to linear and logarithmic frequency‐modulated sweeps in ferret primary auditory cortex

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Interaural Time Difference Discrimination Thresholds for Single Neurons in the Inferior Colliculus of Guinea Pigs

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Response timing constraints on the cortical representation of sound time structure

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Information Content of Auditory Cortical Responses to Time-Varying Acoustic Stimuli

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Transformation of Binaural Response Properties in the Ascending Auditory Pathway: Influence of Time-Varying Interaural Phase Disparity

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Evoked magnetic responses of the human auditory cortex to minor pitch changes: localization of the mismatch field

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Prediction of the responses of auditory neurons in the midbrain of the grass frog based on the spectro-temporal receptive field

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Amplitude and Frequency-modulated Stimuli Activate Common Regions of Human Auditory Cortex

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Processing abstract auditory features in the human auditory cortex

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Representation of concurrent acoustic objects in primary auditory cortex

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Acoustic factors govern developmental sharpening of spatial tuning in the auditory cortex

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Auditory Signal Processing

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The representation of peripheral neural activity in the middle-latency evoked field of primary auditory cortex in humans

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Temporal Representation of Iterated Rippled Noise as a Function of Delay and Sound Level in the Ventral Cochlear Nucleus

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Neural Model for Physiological Responses to Frequency and Amplitude Transitions Uncovers Topographical Order in the Auditory Cortex

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Auditory midbrain laminar structure appears adapted to f0 extraction: further evidence and implications of the double critical bandwidth

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The synergy between speech production and perception

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Transformation of stimulus representations in the ascending auditory system

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Rich Dynamics in a Simplified Excitable System

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Who “Is Saying What”? Brain-based decoding of human voice and speech

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Mismatch negativity (MMN), the deviance-elicited auditory deflection, explained

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Repetition suppression and plasticity in the human brain

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Multisensory Integration of Natural Odors and Sounds in the Auditory Cortex

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Neural representation of spectral and temporal information in speech

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Computational modelling suggests that temporal integration results from synaptic adaptation in auditory cortex.

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Temporal binding of sound emerges out of anatomical structure and synaptic dynamics of auditory cortex

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The myth of the Bayesian brain

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The Harmonic Organization of Auditory Cortex

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Cortical Auditory Disorders: Functional Correlation with the Auditory Cortex

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EFFECTS OF INTRAVENOUS INFUSION OF CENTRAL DEPRESSANTS ON THE EVOKED POTENTIALS OF THE AUDITORY CORTEX IN THE CATS

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Neural Representation of Concurrent Harmonic Sounds in Monkey Primary Auditory Cortex: Implications for Models of Auditory Scene Analysis

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Review for "rDynamics underlying auditory‐object‐boundary detection in primary auditory cortex"

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