title: Listening for the right sounds.
abstract: In this issue of Neuron, Rodgers and DeWeese (2014) developed a new paradigm in which rats had to select or ignore an auditory stimulus, depending on its context. The authors recorded neurons in primary auditory and medial prefrontal cortex. Surprisingly, they found that stimulus context had the largest effect in the moments before the stimulus was presented.
authors.affiliation: The Watson School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA.
authors.forename: Onyekachi
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Odoemene
authors.affiliation: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA. Electronic address: churchland@cshl.edu.
authors.forename: Anne K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Churchland
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D002755:Choice Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000502:physiology*