Laurel H. Carney

Representations of Pitch and Timbre of Instrument Sounds in the Inferior Colliculus

The paper investigates how pitch and timbre of instrument sounds are represented in the inferior colliculus using extracellular recordings and decoding models.

A computational model of the mammalian auditory periphery with a multichannel, energy-driven, medial olivocochlear reflex

This paper introduces a computational model of the mammalian auditory periphery that includes a medial olivocochlear reflex pathway, showing its ability to simulate effects of contralateral elicitors on auditory-nerve responses.

Modelling Auditory Enhancement: Efferent Control of Cochlear Gain can Explain Level Dependence and Effects of Hearing Loss

This paper models auditory enhancement using a subcortical auditory model with MOC efferent gain control, replicating psychoacoustic findings on level dependence and hearing loss effects.

Otoacoustic emissions but not behavioral measurements predict cochlear-nerve frequency tuning in an avian vocal-communication specialist

The paper compares SFOAE-based and behavioral measures of cochlear tuning in budgerigars, finding that SFOAEs accurately predict cochlear tuning while behavioral tuning shows unique patterns.

Mechanisms of Tone-in-Noise Encoding in the Inferior Colliculus

The paper investigates how the inferior colliculus encodes tone-in-noise stimuli, finding that wideband TIN responses involve broad inhibition while narrowband responses depend on envelope fluctuations.

Forward masking in the Inferior Colliculus: Dynamics of Discharge-rate Recovery after Narrowband Noise Maskers

The paper investigates how discharge-rate recovery in IC neurons occurs after narrowband noise maskers, finding that full recovery requires long inter-trial intervals.

Chirp Sensitivity and Vowel Coding in the Inferior Colliculus

The paper investigates how inferior colliculus neurons encode vowels by analyzing their sensitivity to chirp direction and velocity, finding that response timing and chirp sensitivity correlate with vowel identification accuracy.

Outer hair cells stir cochlear fluids

The paper investigates how active outer hair cells drive cochlear fluid circulation using experimental and computational methods.

A Subcortical Model for Auditory Forward Masking with Efferent Control of Cochlear Gain

This paper proposes a computational model of the auditory subcortex that explains forward masking through efferent control of cochlear gain, demonstrating its ability to account for physiological and psychoacoustic results.

Subcortical Auditory Model including Efferent Dynamic Gain Control with Inputs from Cochlear Nucleus and Inferior Colliculus

The paper develops an auditory model with efferent gain control that simulates increased firing rates in inferior colliculus neurons in response to amplitude-modulated noise.

Profile analysis in listeners with sensorineural hearing loss: behavioral data and computational models

The paper measures profile analysis in listeners with sensorineural hearing loss and models the results using computational models of the auditory system, finding that hearing loss and higher frequencies correlate with poorer performance.

A fast and flexible approximation of power-law adaptation for auditory computational models

The paper introduces a fast approximation of power-law adaptation for auditory models, improving computational efficiency while maintaining accuracy.

Dissecting neural computations of the human auditory pathway using deep neural networks for speech

This study uses deep neural networks to model neural coding in the human auditory pathway and finds that DNN representations align with biological auditory processing.

Representations of fricatives in sub-cortical model responses: comparisons with human consonant perception

The paper models neural responses to fricatives in the auditory nerve and inferior colliculus, finding that these responses better predict consonant perception than stimulus spectra.

Incorporating models of subcortical processing improves the ability to predict EEG responses to natural speech

The paper improves EEG prediction of speech responses by incorporating subcortical auditory processing models instead of direct acoustic features.

Inherent envelope fluctuations in forward masking: Effects of age and hearing loss

The paper investigates how age-related hearing loss affects forward masking in Gaussian noise and finds older listeners with mild hearing loss are more susceptible to masker-envelope fluctuations.

Sensitivity to direction and velocity of fast frequency chirps in the inferior colliculus of awake rabbit

The paper investigates how neurons in the rabbit inferior colliculus respond to chirp velocity and periodicity, finding that periodicity has a stronger influence on responses than velocity.

Effects of sensorineural hearing loss on formant-frequency discrimination: Measurements and models

This study examines how sensorineural hearing loss affects formant-frequency discrimination by measuring thresholds and comparing them to auditory models.

Mechanisms of masking by Schroeder-phase harmonic tone complexes in the budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus)

This study investigates Schroeder-phase harmonic tone masking in budgerigars, finding that behavioral thresholds increase with masker F0 and show minimal C value differences, while neural responses exhibit asymmetry between opposite C values.