Jan Schnupp

Unsupervised Learning of Temporal Features for Word Categorization in a Spiking Neural Network Model of the Auditory Brain

The paper develops a spiking neural network model to show that temporal encoding in polychronous groups better represents speaker-independent word identity than rate encoding.

Auditory Nerve Stochasticity Impedes Category Learning: the Role of Cochlear Nucleus and Inferior Colliculus in Stabilising Auditory Nerve Firing

This study shows that auditory nerve stochasticity hinders category learning, and subcortical preprocessing in the cochlear nucleus and inferior colliculus stabilizes firing patterns to enable efficient learning.