Brian J. Malone

The paper investigates how core and belt auditory cortical areas in alert macaques encode frequency-modulated sweeps, finding that spike timing is more informative than firing rate and no hierarchical processing advantage exists for these stimuli.

The paper shows that deep neural networks trained on speech audio can predict spiking activity in auditory cortex neurons at fine time scales better than traditional models and untrained networks.

The paper shows that opponent coding in auditory belt cortex improves amplitude-modulated noise detection through specific pooling methods.