Kerry M. M. Walker

The paper investigates how ferret auditory cortex neurons represent pitch cues, finding specialized neurons that encode pitch from harmonic content, temporal periodicity, or both.

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 study shows how auditory cortical neurons adapt to sound reverberation by adjusting their filtering properties to dereverberate sounds.

The paper shows that local variability in tonotopic maps is not unique to rodents and is influenced by neuron frequency tuning complexity across species.

The paper investigates species-specific differences in pitch perception by comparing ferrets and humans, finding that cochlear filter bandwidths influence the salience of temporal envelope and harmonic cues.