Auditory objects

Separable neural representations of sound sources: Speaker identity and musical timbres

Human listeners can quickly and easily recognize different sound sources (objects and events) in their environment. Understanding how this impressive ability is accomplished can improve signal processing and machine intelligence applications along …

Neural mechanisms of music and language

The time course of sound category identification: Insights from acoustic features

Humans have an impressive, automatic capacity for identifying and organizing sounds in their environment. However, little is known about the timescales that sound identification functions on, or the acoustic features that listeners use to identify …