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ArticleHearing research2021

Sensitivity of neural responses in the inferior colliculus to statistical features of sound textures.

Ambika P Mishra, Fei Peng, Kongyan Li, Nicol S Harper, Jan W H Schnupp

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Article in Hearing research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Interference of Mid-level Speech and Noise Statistics Underlies Human Speech Recognition Sensitivity in Natural Environmental Noise.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  3. Dissociable Roles of the Auditory Midbrain and Cortex in Processing the Statistical Features of Natural Sound Textures.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  4. Speech Categorization Reveals the Role of Early-Stage Temporal-Coherence Processing in Auditory Scene Analysis.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ambika P MishraDepartment of Neuroscience, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. Electronic address: apmishra2@um.cityu.edu.hk.
Fei PengDepartment of Neuroscience, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. Electronic address: feipeng@cityu.edu.hk.
Kongyan LiDepartment of Neuroscience, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR.
Nicol S HarperDepartment of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: nicol.harper@dpag.ox.ac.uk.
Jan W H SchnuppDepartment of Neuroscience, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. Electronic address: wschnupp@cityu.edu.hk.
City University of Hong Kong · HKUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust 108369Wellcome Trust WT108369/2015/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Previous psychophysical studies have identified a hierarchy of time-averaged statistics which determine the identity of natural sound textures. However, it is unclear whether the neurons in the inferior colliculus (IC) are sensitive to each of these statistical features in the natural sound textures. We used 13 representative sound textures spanning the space of 3 statistics extracted from over 200 natural textures. The synthetic textures were generated by incorporating the statistical features in a step-by-step manner, in which a particular statistical feature was changed while the other statistical features remain unchanged. The extracellular activity in response to the synthetic texture stimuli was recorded in the IC of anesthetized rats. Analysis of the transient and sustained multiunit activity after each transition of statistical feature showed that the IC units were sensitive to the changes of all types of statistics, although to a varying extent. For example, we found that more neurons were sensitive to the changes in variance than that in the modulation correlations. Our results suggest that the sensitivity of the statistical features in the subcortical levels contributes to the identification and discrimination of natural sound textures.

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Inferior ColliculiAcoustic StimulationAnimalsNeuronsRatsSoundInferior colliculusSound textureTime-averaged statistics

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PMID34739889
PMCPMC7617187
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