Christophe Micheyl, PhD

Research Assistant Professor


email: cmicheyl@umn.edu
tel: 612 626 3291
fax: 612 626 3359

Auditory Perception and Cognition Group
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota Twin Cities

N640 Elliott Hall,
75 East River Parkway,
Minneapolis, MN 55455


How does the Brain Parse Acoustic Scenes into Audio "Streams"?
  • Pressnitzer D., Sayles M., Micheyl C., Winter M. Perceptual organization of sound begins in the auditory periphery. Current Biology  (in press)
  • Gutschalk A., Micheyl C., Oxenham A.J. Neural correlates of perceptual awareness using informational masking. PLoS Biology (Epub June 10, 2008) PDF 
  • Gutschalk A., Oxenham A.J., Micheyl C., Wilson E.C. Melcher, J.R.M. (2007) Human cortical activity during streaming without spectral cues suggests a general neural substrate for auditory stream segregation, Journal of Neuroscience 28, 13074-13081. PDF
  • Wilson E.C., Melcher J.R., Micheyl C., Gutschalk A., Oxenham A.J. (2007) Cortical fMRI activation to sequences of tones alternating in frequency: Relationship to perceived rate and streaming. Journal of Neurophysiology 97, 2230-2238. PDF
  • Micheyl C., Carlyon R.P., Gutschalk, A., Melcher J.R.M., Oxenham A.J., Rauschecker J.P., Tian B., Wilson E.C. (2007) The role of auditory cortex in the formation of auditory streams. Hearing Research 229, 1161-131. PDF
  • Gutschalk A., Micheyl C., Melcher, J.R., Rupp A., Scherg M., Oxenham A.J. (2005).Neuromagnetic correlates of streaming in human auditory cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 25, 5382-5388. PDF
  • Micheyl C., Tian B., Carlyon R.P., Rauschecker J.P. (2005) Perceptual organization of sound sequences in the auditory cortex of awake macaques. Neuron 6, 139-148 PDF (PDF of Preview by DeWeese & Zador)
  • Kanwal J., Medvedev G., Micheyl C. (2003) Neurodynamics for auditory stream segregation: tracking sounds in the mustached bat’s natural environment. Network: Computation in Neural Systems 14, 413-435. PDF
  • Micheyl C., Pulvermuller F., Carlyon R.P., Shtyrov Y., Hauk O., and Dodson T. (2003) The neurophysiological basis of the auditory continuity illusion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 15, 747-758. PDF
Psychophysics of Auditory Scene Analysis (Auditory Streaming, Concurrent-Sound Segregation)
  • Micheyl C., Bernstein J.G.W., Oxenham A.J. (2006) Detection and F0 discrimination of concurrent harmonic complex tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 120, 1493-1505. PDF
  • Grimault N., Bacon S.P., Micheyl C. (2002) Auditory stream segregation on the basis of amplitude modulation rate. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 111, 1340-1348. PDF
  • Grimault N., Micheyl C., Carlyon R.P., Collet L. (2001) Perceptual auditory stream segregation of sequences of complex sounds in subjects with normal and impaired hearing. British Journal of Audiology 35, 173-182
  • Grimault N., Micheyl C., Carlyon R. P., Arthaud P., Collet L. (2000) Influence of peripheral harmonic resolvability on the perceptual segregation of complex tones differing in fundamental frequency. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 108, 263-271. PDF
  • Carlyon R. P., Moore B. C. J., Micheyl C. (2000) The effect of modulation rate on the detection of frequency modulation and mistuning of complex tones. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 108, 304-315. PDF


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