Jennifer K. Bizley

The paper uses cortical cooling to show that visual cortex inputs shape auditory cortex responses through direct excitation and network modulation in ferrets.

This study shows ferrets can detect transitions to regular auditory patterns, suggesting this ability is not unique to humans.

This study shows that auditory cortex uses both head-centered and world-centered reference frames for sound localization, with head-centered coding dominant at the start but incorporating more world-centered information over time.

This study assesses the benefit of visual information in speech-in-noise perception through an audiovisual test, showing that visual cues improve speech reception thresholds.

This study shows that auditory training alters how ferrets' auditory cortex processes complex sounds, reducing timbre sensitivity across fields but increasing spatial sensitivity and formant frequency integration.

This paper uses gradient-boosted models to analyze ferret auditory discrimination behavior, revealing subtle effects of pitch shifts on performance and identifying predictors of false alarms.

The paper investigates how audiovisual coherence and auditory selective attention interact neurophysiologically, finding dissociable effects on ERP amplitude.

This study inactivates ferret auditory cortex using cooling or optogenetics to assess its role in spatial and non-spatial hearing, finding impairments in vowel discrimination in noise but not in clean or spatially separated conditions.

This study investigates how temporal coherence and temporal predictability in precursor sounds influence auditory grouping and masking by testing their effects on tone detection.

This study compares theta oscillations in ferrets and rats during locomotion and immobility, finding that ferrets maintain theta during immobility while rats switch to large irregular activity.

The paper shows that training improves listeners' ability to use visual cues in auditory tasks by enhancing their sensitivity to audiovisual temporal coherence.

This study establishes a normative weight dataset for female ferrets, showing seasonal weight fluctuations and the impact of water regulation on these changes.

This study investigates the role of auditory cortex in degraded speech sound discrimination in noise using inactivation and electrophysiology in ferrets, showing cortical contributions and adaptation mechanisms.

The paper shows that neurons in primary auditory cortex represent sound source locations independently of spatial cues and supports a labelled line model over a two-channel model for spatial perception.

The paper compares performance in relative localisation tasks using auditory, visual, and auditory-visual stimuli, finding that multisensory stimuli improve performance across all locations.

The paper shows that visual signals enhance auditory cortex representations when temporally coherent with sound, supporting multisensory binding for auditory scene analysis.

The paper investigates how the auditory system represents sound identity in a way that is tolerant to transformations, finding that neural representations are multivariate, multiplexed, and modulated by attention and experience.

This study identifies two types of auditory cortex neurons in freely moving ferrets: one encoding sound location relative to the head and another relative to the world.