Search Results - "Gentner, Timothy Q."

Finding, visualizing, and quantifying latent structure across diverse animal vocal repertoires by Sainburg, Tim, Thielk, Marvin, Gentner, Timothy Q

“…Animals produce vocalizations that range in complexity from a single repeated call to hundreds of unique vocal elements patterned in sequences unfolding over…”
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Parallels in the sequential organization of birdsong and human speech by Sainburg, Tim, Theilman, Brad, Thielk, Marvin, Gentner, Timothy Q.

“…Human speech possesses a rich hierarchical structure that allows for meaning to be altered by words spaced far apart in time. Conversely, the sequential…”
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Associative Learning Enhances Population Coding by Inverting Interneuronal Correlation Patterns by Jeanne, James M., Sharpee, Tatyana O., Gentner, Timothy Q.

“…Learning-dependent cortical encoding has been well described in single neurons. But behaviorally relevant sensory signals drive the coordinated activity of…”
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Toward a Computational Neuroethology of Vocal Communication: From Bioacoustics to Neurophysiology, Emerging Tools and Future Directions by Sainburg, Tim, Gentner, Timothy Q

“…Recently developed methods in computational neuroethology have enabled increasingly detailed and comprehensive quantification of animal movements and…”
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Songbirds use spectral shape, not pitch, for sound pattern recognition by Bregman, Micah R., Patel, Aniruddh D., Gentner, Timothy Q.

“…Humans easily recognize “transposed” musical melodies shifted up or down in log frequency. Surprisingly, songbirds seem to lack this capacity, although they…”
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Central auditory neurons have composite receptive fields by Kozlov, Andrei S., Андрей Сергеевич Козлов, Gentner, Timothy Q.

“…High-level neurons processing complex, behaviorally relevant signals are sensitive to conjunctions of features. Characterizing the receptive fields of such…”
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Acoustic and language-specific sources for phonemic abstraction from speech by Mai, Anna, Riès, Stephanie, Ben-Haim, Sharona, Shih, Jerry J., Gentner, Timothy Q.

“…Spoken language comprehension requires abstraction of linguistic information from speech, but the interaction between auditory and linguistic processing of…”
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Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds by Gentner, Timothy Q, Fenn, Kimberly M, Nusbaum, Howard C, Margoliash, Daniel

“…Humans regularly produce new utterances that are understood by other members of the same language community. Linguistic theories account for this ability…”
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Local field potentials in a pre-motor region predict learned vocal sequences by Brown, 2nd, Daril E, Chavez, Jairo I, Nguyen, Derek H, Kadwory, Adam, Voytek, Bradley, Arneodo, Ezequiel M, Gentner, Timothy Q, Gilja, Vikash

“…Neuronal activity within the premotor region HVC is tightly synchronized to, and crucial for, the articulate production of learned song in birds…”
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Syntactic modulation of rhythm in Australian pied butcherbird song by Xing, Jeffrey, Sainburg, Tim, Taylor, Hollis, Gentner, Timothy Q

“…The acoustic structure of birdsong is spectrally and temporally complex. Temporal complexity is often investigated in a syntactic framework focusing on the…”
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Song recognition learning and stimulus-specific weakening of neural responses in the avian auditory forebrain by Thompson, Jason V, Gentner, Timothy Q

“…Learning typically increases the strength of responses and the number of neurons that respond to training stimuli. Few studies have explored representational…”
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Pattern-Induced Covert Category Learning in Songbirds by Comins, Jordan A., Gentner, Timothy Q.

“…Language is uniquely human, but its acquisition may involve cognitive capacities shared with other species [1–5]. During development, language experience…”
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Neuronal populations and single cells representing learned auditory objects by Gentner, Timothy Q, Margoliash, Daniel

“…The neural representations associated with learned auditory behaviours, such as recognizing individuals based on their vocalizations, are not well described…”
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Central auditory neurons display flexible feature recombination functions by Kozlov, Andrei S, Gentner, Timothy Q

“…Recognition of natural stimuli requires a combination of selectivity and invariance. Classical neurobiological models achieve selectivity and invariance,…”
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Stimulus Driven Single Unit Activity From Micro-Electrocorticography by Hermiz, John, Hossain, Lorraine, Arneodo, Ezequiel M, Ganji, Mehran, Rogers, Nicholas, Vahidi, Nasim, Halgren, Eric, Gentner, Timothy Q, Dayeh, Shadi A, Gilja, Vikash

“…High-fidelity measurements of neural activity can enable advancements in our understanding of the neural basis of complex behaviors such as speech, audition,…”
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Subthreshold membrane responses underlying sparse spiking to natural vocal signals in auditory cortex by Perks, Krista E., Gentner, Timothy Q.

“…Natural acoustic communication signals, such as speech, are typically high‐dimensional with a wide range of co‐varying spectro‐temporal features at multiple…”
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Mechanisms of song perception in oscine birds by Knudsen, Daniel P., Gentner, Timothy Q.

“…Songbirds share a number of parallels with humans that make them an attractive model system for studying the behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms that…”
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Local inhibition modulates learning-dependent song encoding in the songbird auditory cortex by Thompson, Jason V, Jeanne, James M, Gentner, Timothy Q

“…Changes in inhibition during development are well documented, but the role of inhibition in adult learning-related plasticity is not understood. In songbirds,…”
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Temporal scales of auditory objects underlying birdsong vocal recognition by Gentner, Timothy Q.

“…Vocal recognition is common among songbirds, and provides an excellent model system to study the perceptual and neurobiological mechanisms for processing…”
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Spike Train Coactivity Encodes Learned Natural Stimulus Invariances in Songbird Auditory Cortex by Theilman, Brad, Perks, Krista, Gentner, Timothy Q

“…The capacity for sensory systems to encode relevant information that is invariant to many stimulus changes is central to normal, real-world, cognitive…”
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