Top-Down Inference in the Auditory System: Potential Roles for Corticofugal Projections

It has become widely accepted that humans use contextual information to infer the meaning of ambiguous acoustic signals. In speech, for example, high-level semantic, syntactic, or lexical information shape our understanding of a phoneme buried in noise. Most current theories to explain this phenomen...

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Main Authors: Alexander Asilador, Daniel A. Llano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Neural Circuits
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncir.2020.615259/full