Adaptation to stimulus statistics in the perception and neural representation of auditory space.

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Sensory systems are known to adapt their coding strategies to the statistics of their environment, but little is still known about the perceptual implications of such adjustments. We investigated how auditory spatial processing adapts to stimulus statistics by presenting human listeners and anesthetized ferrets with noise sequences in which interaural level differences (ILD) rapidly fluctuated according to a Gaussian distribution. The mean of the distribution biased the perceived laterality o...

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Authors: Dahmen, J; Keating, P; Nodal, F; Schulz, A; King, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Neuron
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 937-948
• Publication date: 2010-06-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2010.05.018
• EISSN: 1097-4199
• ISSN: 0896-6273
• Language: English
• Keywords: Models, Neurological; Humans; Auditory Perception; Linear Models; Space Perception; Animals; Neurons; Action Potentials; Auditory Cortex; Psychophysics; Male; Psychometrics; Analysis of Variance; Reaction Time; Ferrets; Time Factors; Acoustic Stimulation; Adaptation, Physiological; Female; Nonlinear Dynamics