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Gradient boosted decision trees reveal nuances of auditory discrimination behavior (2024)
Journal Article

Animal psychophysics can generate rich behavioral datasets, often comprised of many 1000s of trials for an individual subject. Gradient-boosted models are a promising machine learning approach for analyzing such data, partly due to the tools that all... Read More about Gradient boosted decision trees reveal nuances of auditory discrimination behavior.

What Happens When We Hear? (2023)
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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)
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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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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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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)
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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)
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© 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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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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© 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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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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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)
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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.