Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

NEUROSCIENCE

What auditory cortex is waiting for

  • News & Views
  • Published:

From Nature Human Behaviour

View current issue Submit your manuscript

To make sense of what we hear, the brain must integrate information over time. How is this temporal integration orchestrated in human auditory cortex? A new study by Norman-Haignere and colleagues1 introduces a promising method to estimate neural integration windows and demonstrates that category-specific versus more generic computations operate on distinct timescales.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1: Hierarchical organization of temporal integration windows in auditory cortex.

References

  1. Norman-Haignere, S. V. et al. Nat. Hum. Behav. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01261-y (2022).

  2. Kell, A. J. E., Yamins, D. L. K., Shook, E. N., Norman-Haignere, S. V. & McDermott, J. H. Neuron 98, 630–644 (2018).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  3. Leaver, A. M. & Rauschecker, J. P. J. Neurosci. 30, 7604–7612 (2010).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  4. Chien, H.-Y. S. & Honey, C. J. Neuron 106, 675–686 (2020).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Himberger, K. D., Chien, H.-Y. & Honey, C. J. Neuroscience 389, 161–174 (2018).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Hamilton, L. S., Oganian, Y., Hall, J. & Chang, E. F. Cell 184, 4626–4639 (2021).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Lerner, Y., Honey, C. J., Silbert, L. J. & Hasson, U. J. Neurosci. 31, 2906–2915 (2011).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Schmitt, L.-M. et al. Predicting speech from a cortical hierarchy of event-based timescales. Sci. Adv. (in the press).

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

    Lea-Maria Schmitt & Jonas Obleser

  2. Center of Brain, Behavior and Metabolism, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

    Lea-Maria Schmitt & Jonas Obleser

Authors
  1. Lea-Maria Schmitt
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Jonas Obleser
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Jonas Obleser.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Schmitt, LM., Obleser, J. What auditory cortex is waiting for. Nat Hum Behav 6, 324–325 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01262-x

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01262-x

  • Springer Nature Limited

Search

Navigation