| editorial focus Auditory Modeling Gets an Edge (2003) | |||||||||||||||
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| Wiesel 1962), visual neurophysiologists have had a powerful model for understanding responses of neurons in the primary visual cortex. According to this model, simple cells in the visual cortex respond optimally to edges of the appropriate orientation and spatial location; responses of complex and hypercomplex cells can be constructed from these simpler responses. While, of course, neural responses in primary visual cortex are more complicated, this simple model has provided a solid foundation upon which to build. Now in a paper by Fishbach et al 2003 (this issue, pgs. 3663–3678), a similar framework is being proposed for auditory research. The success of the Hubel-Wiesel model left cortical auditory physiologists with a serious case of stimulus-envy. After decades of research, there is no consensus about what | |||||||||||||||
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