All Outputs (11)

What Happens When We Hear? (2023)
Journal Article
Sumner, C. J., Akeroyd, M. A., Sollini, J., & Hart, C. (in press). What Happens When We Hear?. Frontiers for Young Minds, 11, 1072364. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2023.1072364

What happens when we hear? Where does the sound go when it enters our ears? Our ears sense the vibrations of the air and convert them into electrical signals the brain can process. But that is only the start. The brain uses tens of thousands of nerve... Read More about What Happens When We Hear?.

Inferring the basis of binaural detection with a modified autoencoder (2023)
Journal Article
Smith, S., Sollini, J., & Akeroyd, M. A. (2023). Inferring the basis of binaural detection with a modified autoencoder. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, Article 1000079. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1000079

The binaural system utilizes interaural timing cues to improve the detection of auditory signals presented in noise. In humans, the binaural mechanisms underlying this phenomenon cannot be directly measured and hence remain contentious. As an alterna... Read More about Inferring the basis of binaural detection with a modified autoencoder.

The role of temporal coherence and temporal predictability in the build-up of auditory grouping (2022)
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Sollini, J., Poole, K. C., Blauth-Muszkowski, D., & Bizley, J. K. (2022). The role of temporal coherence and temporal predictability in the build-up of auditory grouping. Scientific Reports, 12, Article 14493. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18583-0

The cochlea decomposes sounds into separate frequency channels, from which the auditory brain must reconstruct the auditory scene. To do this the auditory system must make decisions about which frequency information should be grouped together, and wh... Read More about The role of temporal coherence and temporal predictability in the build-up of auditory grouping.

Burden of rare variants in synaptic genes in patients with severe tinnitus: An exome based extreme phenotype study (2021)
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Espinosa-Sanchez, J. M., Lopez-Escamez, J. A., Cederroth, C. R., Canlon, B., May, P., Aran, I., …Gallego-Martinez, A. (2021). Burden of rare variants in synaptic genes in patients with severe tinnitus: An exome based extreme phenotype study. EBioMedicine, 66, Article 103309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103309

Background: tinnitus is a heterogeneous condition associated with audiological and/or mental disorders. Chronic, severe tinnitus is reported in 1% of the population and it shows a relevant heritability, according to twins, adoptees and familial aggr... Read More about Burden of rare variants in synaptic genes in patients with severe tinnitus: An exome based extreme phenotype study.

Seasonal weight changes in laboratory ferrets (2020)
Journal Article
Jones, E. J., Poole, K. C., Sollini, J., Town, S. M., & Bizley, J. K. (2020). Seasonal weight changes in laboratory ferrets. PLoS ONE, 15(8), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232733

Ferrets (Mustela putorius furo) are a valuable animal model used in biomedical research. Like many animals, ferrets undergo significant variation in body weight seasonally, affected by photoperiod, and these variations complicate the use weight as an... Read More about Seasonal weight changes in laboratory ferrets.

Mammalian behavior and physiology converge to confirm sharper cochlear tuning in humans (2018)
Journal Article
Sumner, C. J., Wells, T., Bergevin, C., Sollini, J., Kreft, H., Palmer, A., …Shera, C. (2018). Mammalian behavior and physiology converge to confirm sharper cochlear tuning in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(44), 11322-11326. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1810766115

© 2018 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Frequency analysis of sound by the cochlea is the most fundamental property of the auditory system. Despite its importance, the resolution of this frequency analysis in humans remains controve... Read More about Mammalian behavior and physiology converge to confirm sharper cochlear tuning in humans.

ON-OFF receptive fields in auditory cortex diverge during development and contribute to directional sweep selectivity (2018)
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Sollini, J., Chapuis, G. A., Clopath, C., & Chadderton, P. (2018). ON-OFF receptive fields in auditory cortex diverge during development and contribute to directional sweep selectivity. Nature Communications, 9, Article 2084. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04548-3

Neurons in the auditory cortex exhibit distinct frequency tuning to the onset and offset of sounds, but the cause and significance of ON and OFF receptive field (RF) organisation are not understood. Here we demonstrate that distinct ON and OFF freque... Read More about ON-OFF receptive fields in auditory cortex diverge during development and contribute to directional sweep selectivity.

Spatial processing is frequency specific in auditory cortex but not in the midbrain (2017)
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Mill, R., Sumner, C. J., & Sollini, J. A. (2017). Spatial processing is frequency specific in auditory cortex but not in the midbrain. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(27), 6588-6599. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3034-16.2017

© 2017 the authors. The cochlea behaves like a bank of band-pass filters, segregating information into different frequency channels. Some aspects of perception reflect processing within individual channels, but others involve the integration of infor... Read More about Spatial processing is frequency specific in auditory cortex but not in the midbrain.

Comodulation Enhances Signal Detection via Priming of Auditory Cortical Circuits (2016)
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Sollini, J., & Chadderton, P. (2016). Comodulation Enhances Signal Detection via Priming of Auditory Cortical Circuits. Journal of Neuroscience, 36(49), 12299-12311. https://doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.0656-16.2016

Acoustic environments are composed of complex overlapping sounds that the auditory system is required to segregate into discrete perceptual objects. The functions of distinct auditory processing stations in this challenging task are poorly understood... Read More about Comodulation Enhances Signal Detection via Priming of Auditory Cortical Circuits.

Relating approach-to-target and detection tasks in animal psychoacoustics (2016)
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Sumner, C., Sollini, J., & Alves-Pinto, A. (2016). Relating approach-to-target and detection tasks in animal psychoacoustics. Behavioral Neuroscience, 130(4), 393-405. https://doi.org/10.1037/bne0000143

Psychophysical experiments seek to measure the limits of perception. While straightforward in humans, in animals they are time consuming. Choosing an appropriate task and interpreting measurements can be challenging. We investigated the localization... Read More about Relating approach-to-target and detection tasks in animal psychoacoustics.

Behavioural estimates of auditory filter widths in ferrets using notched-noise maskers (2016)
Journal Article
Sumner, C., Alves-Pinto, A., Sollini, J., & Wells, T. (2016). Behavioural estimates of auditory filter widths in ferrets using notched-noise maskers. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139(2), EL19-EL24. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4941772

Frequency selectivity is a fundamental property of hearing which affects almost all aspects of auditory processing. Here auditory filter widths at 1, 3, 7, and 10 kHz were estimated from behavioural thresholds using the notched-noise method [Patterso... Read More about Behavioural estimates of auditory filter widths in ferrets using notched-noise maskers.