Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Optimal features for auditory categorization

  • Shi Tong Liu,
  • Pilar Montes-Lourido,
  • Xiaoqin Wang,
  • Srivatsun Sadagopan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09115-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Vocalizations such as speech or animal calls have high variability in production. Here, the authors report that a few mid-level acoustic features provide sufficient information to generalize across this variability and classify vocalization types and auditory cortical neurons exhibit tuning to these features.