TY - GEN N2 - The auditory system uses sound to guide behavior. However, the aspects of the sensory environment that are relevant to an organism's behavioral goals change over time. How does the brain allow us to understand the words of one particular speaker in a conversation-filled room, or tune out ambient noise as we drift to sleep? In this dissertation, we explore the source of this flexibility by examining how attention and arousal affect neural activity in one region of the brain that processes sound. DO - 10.6083/3r074v49w DO - DOI AB - The auditory system uses sound to guide behavior. However, the aspects of the sensory environment that are relevant to an organism's behavioral goals change over time. How does the brain allow us to understand the words of one particular speaker in a conversation-filled room, or tune out ambient noise as we drift to sleep? In this dissertation, we explore the source of this flexibility by examining how attention and arousal affect neural activity in one region of the brain that processes sound. T1 - Effects of attention and arousal on neural activity in auditory cortex DA - 2020 AU - Phillips Schwartz, Leah L1 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/8086/files/Schwartz.Leah.2020.pdf PB - Oregon Health and Science University PY - 2020 ID - 8086 L4 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/8086/files/Schwartz.Leah.2020.pdf KW - Auditory Cortex KW - Arousal KW - Attention KW - Pupil KW - Ferrets KW - Neurons TI - Effects of attention and arousal on neural activity in auditory cortex Y1 - 2020 L2 - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/8086/files/Schwartz.Leah.2020.pdf LK - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/8086/files/Schwartz.Leah.2020.pdf UR - https://digitalcollections.ohsu.edu/record/8086/files/Schwartz.Leah.2020.pdf ER -