Here we propose an alternative model of functional segregation in the auditory cortex. Our model agrees that the ventral pathway is probably involved in perceiving auditory objects by extracting ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

The illustration represents how sounds are encoded in the cerebral cortex, with neurons (at right) using "echoing" activity to track auditory stimuli to change and improve the brain's predictions ...

In the stressed mice, she explains, “we observed an increase in baseline (spontaneous) activity in excitatory cells in the auditory cortex.” In a brain without this increased baseline activity ...

In repetitive stress sessions, the mice were placed in ... ability to hear—measured in the auditory brainstem—remained normal. However, in the auditory cortex, stressed animals had higher ...

and Tal Levy – examined the effects of chronic stress on auditory processing in the brain. By examining the mice, the team discovered a clear effect of chronic stress on sound responses over time.