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Toward a Theory of Information Processing in Auditory Cortex

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The Human Auditory Cortex

Part of the book series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research ((SHAR,volume 43))

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The primary goal of auditory science is to provide a full account of how humans and animals hear sounds of all kinds: the sounds of everyday life, environmental sounds, speech, and music. A comprehensive, neurally grounded theory of hearing is needed that explains precisely how we hear what we hear. This chapter discusses cortical function in the context of such a theory. The first half of the chapter (Sections 13.2 and 13.3) outlines the basic structure of hearing (what is to be explained) and the various aspects of neural information processing that are needed for adequate explanations of auditory function (the terms of the explanations). The second half (Section 13.4) lists some of the fundamental outstanding experimental and theoretical problems that need to be solved.

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This work was supported by research grants from the Air Force Office for Sponsored Research (FA9550-09-1-0119 to P. C.) and the National Institutes for Health (R01 DC05216 and R01 07657 to C. M.).

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Cariani, P., Micheyl, C. (2012). Toward a Theory of Information Processing in Auditory Cortex. In: Poeppel, D., Overath, T., Popper, A., Fay, R. (eds) The Human Auditory Cortex. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, vol 43. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2314-0_13

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