RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Neural Mechanisms for the Abstraction and Use of Pitch Information in Auditory Cortex
JF The Journal of Neuroscience
JO J. Neurosci.
FD Society for Neuroscience
SP 13339
OP 13342
DO 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3814-12.2012
VO 32
IS 39
A1 Wang, Xiaoqin
A1 Walker, Kerry M. M.
YR 2012
UL http://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/39/13339.abstract
AB Experiments in animals have provided an important complement to human studies of pitch perception by revealing how the activity of individual neurons represents harmonic complex and periodic sounds. Such studies have shown that the acoustical parameters associated with pitch are represented by the spiking responses of neurons in A1 (primary auditory cortex) and various higher auditory cortical fields. The responses of these neurons are also modulated by the timbre of sounds. In marmosets, a distinct region on the low-frequency border of primary and non-primary auditory cortex may provide pitch tuning that generalizes across timbre classes.