Dear colleagues,

if you are interested in recently developed techniques to extract and analyze auditory cortical data, consider the book
"Handbook of Modern Techniques in Auditory Cortex",
D.A.Depireux & M.Elhilali, eds.

It can be acquired via Amazon at
http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Modern-Techniques-Auditory-Cortex/dp/162808894X
or directly from the publisher at
https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=45166

A host of new broadband methods have recently been developed in the study and modelling of the auditory pathway. These methods have allowed us to better understand how complex sounds are encoded along the auditory pathway in a noise-robust fashion, and the resulting cortical models have been used in a variety of problems, such speech recognition, speaker identification and noise reduction with great success. These techniques were developed and refined over the last 20 years, and as a result, the published literature offers a scattered, sometimes seemingly contradictory, account. This book is the first to present, in a single volume, the different broadband methods, their different philosophies, their relative advantages and disadvantages, and a methodology that will help the would-be-practitioner get started, navigate the literature, and chose the method most appropriate to her needs.

Thank you,

                            Didier Depireux & Mounya Elhilali

Didier A Depireux                depireux@gmail.com
Inst. for Systems Research    http://theearlab.org
School of Engineering           Ph: 410-925-6546
U Md College Park MD 20742 USA
Adjunct, BioEngineering