Mateo López Espejo

The paper investigates how auditory cortex encodes long-lasting contextual effects in natural sounds using neural population activity.

The paper shows that in auditory cortex, foreground sounds are suppressed when presented with background sounds, and this suppression is linked to spectro-temporal statistics of the sounds.

The paper develops a model of spectral adaptation in auditory cortex that incorporates short-term synaptic plasticity to better predict neural responses to natural sounds than standard models.