Cosyne 2008 Workshops
March 3-4, 2008
Snow Bird, Utah
Workshop Title
Linking Auditory Neurophysiology to Perception
Organizer(s)
Jan Schnupp (University of Oxford): jan@physiol.ox.ac.uk
Abstract
The ultimate goal of sensory neurosciences is to describe the neural basis of perception. Yet in the auditory neurosciences, the vast majority of studies have hitherto pursued either psychophysical or physiological approaches separately, with perhaps not sufficient effort to try to link the two approaches together to form a coherent picture. Work done in the visual and somatosensory systems has shown that studies which reveal carefully established parallels between neurophysiological responses and perception can be very insightful, even if it remains very difficult to demonstrate causal relationships between neural responses and perception unequivocally in any sensory modality. In this workshop we hope to highlight some recent auditory neuroscience research which tries to bring neurophysiological and psychophysical accounts of auditory function closer together, and we will debate some of the technical and conceptual difficulties that need to be overcome it we are to establish firmer links between putative neural codes to auditory perception. The examples presented cover a wide range of perceptual tasks and stations of the auditory pathway, from simple signal detection in the auditory nerve through monaural and binaural temporal processing to the representation of vocalizations and speech signals in primary and higher order cortical areas.
Speakers
| Peter Heil - Leibniz Institute, Magdeburg | Towards a unifying basis of absolute auditory thresholds |
| Lutz Wiegrebe – University of Munich | Psychophysical and physiological evidence for fast binaural processing |
| Tony Zador - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Millisecond spike timing can guide behavior in auditory cortex |
| Kerry Walker – University of Oxford | A spike pattern based neurometric analysis for the discrimination of natural sounds |
| Kamal Sen - Boston University | Discrimination of Complex Natural Sounds in Songbirds: Neurons & Behavior |
| Mike Kilgard - University of Texas | Cortical Activity Patterns Predict Speech Discrimination Ability |
| Jennifer Bizley – University of Oxford | The Neural Basis of Pitch Perception |
| Shihab Shamma - University of Maryland | Encoding task rules and performance in auditory and frontal cortex of the ferret |
| Yale Cohen – Dartmouth University | Auditory attention and auditory categorization in primate ventrolateral prefrontal cortex |
