Vocal learners such as humans and songbirds can learn to produce elaborate patterns of
structurally organized vocalizations, whereas many other vertebrates such as non-human …

Attention powerfully influences auditory perception, but little is understood about the
mechanisms whereby attention sharpens responses to unattended sounds. We used high-…

An important aspect of animal perception and cognition is learning to recognize relationships
between environmental events that predict others in time, a form of relational knowledge …

Recent studies suggest that multisensory integration does not only occur in higher association
cortices but also at early stages of auditory processing, possibly in primary or secondary …

Our brain integrates the information provided by the different sensory modalities into a
coherent percept, and recent studies suggest that this process is not restricted to higher …

To form a coherent percept of the environment, our brain combines information from different
senses. Such multisensory integration occurs in higher association cortices; but supposedly…

Our nervous system is confronted with a barrage of sensory stimuli, but neural resources are
limited and not all stimuli can be processed to the same extent. Mechanisms exist to bias …

For vocal animals, recognizing species-specific vocalizations is important for survival and
social interactions. In humans, a voice region has been identified that is sensitive to human …

Anatomical studies propose that the primate auditory cortex contains more fields than have
actually been functionally confirmed or described. Spatially resolved functional magnetic …

Merging the information from different senses is essential for successful interaction with real-life
situations. Indeed, sensory integration can reduce perceptual ambiguity, speed reactions…