Research Seminars

Neural Representation of Sounds: A Tour of Auditory Centres in the Human Central Nervous System
Chris Landone, Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London / SePta, Milan, Italy
Wed 28 January 2004

This talk will examine how sound waves are processed in the sub-cortical pathways between the cochlea and the auditory cortex, providing particular emphasis on the manner in which complex sounds are represented in terms of neural spiking patterns. This tour will cover in particular the processes involved in human auditory localisation but will hopefully provide some ideas for the implementation of physiology-based extensions to the usual time-frequency representations of sound stimuli.