The Neural coding of pitch in the auditory Seminar

Pitch is an important cue for auditory perception, it is for example extremely important in separating speech from noise or to track one speaker in the background of others. Ian is an expert in neural coding in the brainstem and will talk about how pitch is derived and encoded in the brainstem. He investigated for example single neurons in their response to a stimulus that has no spectral and only temporal cues: iterated rippled noise. This work has led to better models of pitch perception and could be important for future bio-inspired noise reduction algorithms.

All welcome to attend.