Theme 5 Papers

HST.723J/9.285J - Neural Coding and Perception of Sound

Functional organization of the auditory cortex and its activation by audio-visual stimuli (from Kayser et al. 2007)

Semple MN, Scott BH (2003). PDF Cortical mechanisms in hearing. Current Opin. Neurobiol. 13:167-173.
Huettel SA, Song AW, McCarthy G (2004). PDF An introduction to fMRI. Chapter 1 in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Sinauer, Sunderland, MA), pp. 1-26.
Hall DH (200?). PDF Hemodynamic-based imaging of central auditory function. In Auditory Evoked Potentials: Basic Principles and Applications, RF Burkard, JJ Eggermont, M Don (eds). LWW: Philadelphia, pp. 22-40.

Fritz J, Shamma S, Elhilali M, Klein D (2003). PDF Pointers Rapid task-related plasticity of spectrotemporal receptive fields in primary auditory cortex. Nature Neurosci 6:1216-1223. Brown. Discussed 4/22.
Froemke RC, Merzenich MM, Schreiner CE (2007). PDF A synaptic memory trace for cortical receptive field plasticity. Nature 450: 425 - 429. Brown. Discussed 4/22.
Meredith, MA and Allman, BL (2009). PDF Subthreshold multisensory processing in cat auditory cortex. Neuroreport 20: 126-131. Brown. Discussed 4/22.

Hofman, van Riswick, van Opstal (1998). PDF Pointers Commentary by Wightman and Kistler Relearning sound localization with new ears. Nature Neurosci 1:417-421. Melcher. Discussed 4/27.
Beauchamp MC, Argall BD, Bodurka J, Duyn JH, Martin A. (2004). PDF Pointers Unraveling multisensory integration: Patchy organization within human STS multisensory cortex. Nature Neurosci. 7:1190-1192. Melcher. Discussed 4/27.
Cate AD, Herron TJ, Yund, EW et al. (2009). PDF Auditory attention activates peripheral visual cortex. PLoS ONE 4: e4645. Melcher. Discussed 4/27.

Melcher JR (2008). PDF Auditory evoked potentials. To appear in Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 4th Ed, LR Squire, ed. Oxford: Academic, in press.
Syka J (2002). PDF Plastic changes in the central auditory system after hearing loss, restoration of function, and during learning. Physiol. Rev. 82:601–636.