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Auditory spatial acuity approximates the resolving power of space-specific neurons. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2007 The relationship between neuronal acuity and behavioral performance was assessed in the barn owl (Tyto alba), a nocturnal raptor renowned for its ability to localize sounds and for the topographic representation of auditory space found in the midbrain ...
Avinash D S Bala +2 more
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Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 Tinnitus is the phantom perception of sound that has no external source. A neurological signature of tinnitus, and the frequently associated hyperacusis, is an imbalance between excitatory and inhibitory activity in the central auditory system (CAS ...
Luisa L. Scott +9 more
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Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2018 Active mechanical amplification of sound occurs in cochlear outer hair cells (OHCs) that change their length with oscillations of their membrane potential. Such length changes are the proposed cellular source of the cochlear amplifier, and prestin is the
Joseph P. Walton +6 more
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Neural circuits underlying auditory contrast gain control and their perceptual implications
Nature Communications, 2020 Auditory contrast gain control helps us perceive sounds as constant despite changes in the environment or background noise. Here, the authors show that neurons in the auditory thalamus and midbrain of mice display independent contrast gain control, not ...
Michael Lohse +3 more
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Two stages of bandwidth scaling drives efficient neural coding of natural sounds.
PLoS Computational Biology, 2023 Theories of efficient coding propose that the auditory system is optimized for the statistical structure of natural sounds, yet the transformations underlying optimal acoustic representations are not well understood.
Fengrong He +2 more
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Midbrain auditory selectivity to natural sounds [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016 Significance Nervous systems have evolved to enable processing of complex stimuli that animals encounter in their natural environments, and yet, neurophysiological research has largely investigated responses to simple artificial stimuli.
Melville J. Wohlgemuth, Cynthia F. Moss
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A neural ensemble correlation code for sound category identification.
PLoS Biology, 2019 Humans and other animals effortlessly identify natural sounds and categorize them into behaviorally relevant categories. Yet, the acoustic features and neural transformations that enable sound recognition and the formation of perceptual categories are ...
Mina Sadeghi +3 more
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Mechanisms of spectral and temporal integration in the mustached bat inferior colliculus
Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2012 This review describes mechanisms and circuitry underlying combination-sensitive response properties in the auditory brainstem and midbrain. Combination-sensitive neurons, performing a type of auditory spectro-temporal integration, respond to specific ...
Jeffrey James Wenstrup +2 more
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NeuroImage, 2021 The frequency-following response (FFR) to periodic complex sounds has gained recent interest in auditory cognitive neuroscience as it captures with great fidelity the tracking accuracy of the periodic sound features in the ascending auditory system ...
Natàlia Gorina-Careta +4 more
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Speech-in-noise representation in the aging midbrain and cortex: Effects of hearing loss.
PLoS ONE, 2019 Age-related deficits in speech-in-noise understanding pose a significant problem for older adults. Despite the vast number of studies conducted to investigate the neural mechanisms responsible for these communication difficulties, the role of central ...
Alessandro Presacco +2 more
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