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ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2014

Neural processing of natural sounds.

Frédéric E Theunissen, Julie E Elie

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Review in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 115 papers.

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115citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

115 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Reconstructing the spectrotemporal modulations of real-life sounds from fMRI response patterns.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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  8. Selective Attention Shapes Neural Representations of Complex Auditory Scenes: The Roles of Object Identity and Scene Composition.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  10. Rough is salient: a conserved vocal niche to hijack the brain's salience system.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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  12. Reduced Neural Responses to Natural Foreground versus Background Sounds in the Auditory Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  13. A review of concurrent sonified biofeedback in balance and gait training.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2025
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  19. A perspective on neuroethology: what the past teaches us about the future of neuroethology.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2024
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55 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Frédéric E TheunissenDepartment of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
Julie E ElieDepartment of Psychology and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.

Funding

CRCNS: Ethological theories: optimal auditory processingR01DC007293 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI GASTPAR, MICHAEL, OLSHAUSEN, BRUNO A. · 2004 to 2013
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NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC007293
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We might be forced to listen to a high-frequency tone at our audiologist's office or we might enjoy falling asleep with a white-noise machine, but the sounds that really matter to us are the voices of our companions or music from our favourite radio station. The auditory system has evolved to process behaviourally relevant natural sounds. Research has shown not only that our brain is optimized for natural hearing tasks but also that using natural sounds to probe the auditory system is the best way to understand the neural computations that enable us to comprehend speech or appreciate music.

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SoundAcoustic StimulationAnimalsAuditory PathwaysAuditory PerceptionBrain MappingHearingHumansMusic

Identifiers

PMID24840800

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