Yale E. Cohen ● Arthur N. Popper ● Richard R. Fay
Editors

2013

Hearing and communication present a variety of challenges to the nervous system. To be heard and to be understood, a communication signal must be transformed from a time-varying acoustic waveform to a perceptual representation and then to an abstract representation that combines the perceptual representation with memory stores and semantic/referential information. Finally, this abstract representation must be interpreted to form categorical decisions that guide behavior.