“…Thus, by the level of auditory cortex, complex sounds may be represented in a largely intensity-independent, "object-oriented" fashion (Billimoria, Kraus, Narayan, Maddox, & Sen, 2008;Pienkowski & Eggermont, 2011c; for a review, see Barbour, 2011), particularly during attentive listening (Ding & Simon, 2012;Mesgarani & Chang, 2012), although the basis for such representations may begin to emerge in the cochlear nucleus (Blackburn & Sachs, 1990; for a review, see Young, 1998). Thus, by the level of auditory cortex, complex sounds may be represented in a largely intensity-independent, "object-oriented" fashion (Billimoria, Kraus, Narayan, Maddox, & Sen, 2008;Pienkowski & Eggermont, 2011c; for a review, see Barbour, 2011), particularly during attentive listening (Ding & Simon, 2012;Mesgarani & Chang, 2012), although the basis for such representations may begin to emerge in the cochlear nucleus (Blackburn & Sachs, 1990; for a review, see Young, 1998).…”