Subject: Re: Pitch orientation-discriminating feature detectors? From: "Didier A. Depireux" <didier(at)ISR.UMD.EDU> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 16:09:56 -0400On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, Bret Aarden wrote: > I recently heard a talk by Shihab Shamma on the work his lab at the > University of Maryland has been doing with ferrets. They found > primary auditory cortex cells with preferential response to various > frequency change rates and directions, and various bandwidths. The original question was about a cell that tracks pitch. Are you sure Shamma was talking about pitch, and not about spectral envelope...? Didier -- Didier A Depireux ddepi001(at)umaryland.edu didier(at)isr.umd.edu 685 W.Baltimore Str http://neurobiology.umaryland.edu/depireux.htm Anatomy and Neurobiology Phone: 410-706-1272 (off) University of Maryland -1273 (lab) Baltimore MD 21201 USA Fax: 1-410-706-2512