TY - JOUR
T1 - Neurocomputational mechanisms contributing to auditory perception
AU - Cohen, Yale E.
AU - Banno, Taku
AU - Lee, Jaejin
AU - Rodriguez-Campos, Francisco
AU - Schaff, Matthew
AU - Suriya-Arunroj, Lalitta
AU - Tsunada, Joji
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by grants from the NIH, ARO, and ONR.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Author(s).
PY - 2018/9/1
Y1 - 2018/9/1
N2 - A fundamental scientific question in auditory neuroscience is identifying the mechanisms required by the brain to transform an unlabelled mixture of auditory stimuli into distinct and coherent perceptual representations. This transformation is often called "auditory-scene analysis". Auditory-scene analysis consists of a complex interaction of multiple neurocomputational processes, including Gestalt grouping mechanisms, attention, and perceptual decision-making. Despite a great deal of scientific energy devoted to understanding these aspects of hearing, we still do not understand (1) how sound perception arises from neural activity and (2) the causal relationship between neural activity and sound perception. Several lines of evidence indicate that the ventral auditory pathway plays a prominent role in auditory perception and decision-making. Here, we review the contribution of the ventral pathway to auditory perception and put forth challenges to the field to further our understanding of the relationship between neural activity in the ventral pathway and perception.
AB - A fundamental scientific question in auditory neuroscience is identifying the mechanisms required by the brain to transform an unlabelled mixture of auditory stimuli into distinct and coherent perceptual representations. This transformation is often called "auditory-scene analysis". Auditory-scene analysis consists of a complex interaction of multiple neurocomputational processes, including Gestalt grouping mechanisms, attention, and perceptual decision-making. Despite a great deal of scientific energy devoted to understanding these aspects of hearing, we still do not understand (1) how sound perception arises from neural activity and (2) the causal relationship between neural activity and sound perception. Several lines of evidence indicate that the ventral auditory pathway plays a prominent role in auditory perception and decision-making. Here, we review the contribution of the ventral pathway to auditory perception and put forth challenges to the field to further our understanding of the relationship between neural activity in the ventral pathway and perception.
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U2 - 10.3813/AAA.919233
DO - 10.3813/AAA.919233
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85055869736
SN - 1610-1928
VL - 104
SP - 870
EP - 873
JO - Acta Acustica united with Acustica
JF - Acta Acustica united with Acustica
IS - 5
ER -