Auditory cortex is essential for information encoding and maintenance in auditory working memory, especially during the early delay period.

Behavior is a major determinant of the activity of auditory midbrain neurons and can shape their responses independently of input from the auditory cortex.

Feedback from the mammalian auditory cortex to the midbrain decreases sound selectivity, altering how sounds are processed in the brain.

Inter-individual human brain alignment that uses macro-anatomical priors in addition to cortical curvature improves micro-anatomical correspondence between auditory areas.

Data collected from two important auditory brain areas distinguish effects of generalized arousal and specific task engagement on neural sensory coding.

Primary auditory cortex shows population-level correlates of sound categorization, with categorical patterns emerging during sound presentation and task engagement leading to asymmetrical representation of stimuli, indicating an early involvement in stimulus categorization.

The perception of ambiguous steps in relative tone height is predicted by direction-selective cells in the auditory cortex, rather than the brain's represented distance between the tone heights.

Abrupt sounds boost coincident visual cortex responses which could help localization of sudden audio-visual events.

Auditory representations of natural sounds are similar in primary auditory cortex of ferrets and humans, but diverge sharply in non-primary areas for speech and music sounds.

Engagement in auditory detection task leads to selective enhancement of task relevant information by neural populations in higher order auditory cortex.