Sensitivity to Temporal Modulation Rate and Spectral 1 Bandwidth in the Human Auditory System : MEG Evidence

Yadong Wang, Nai Ding, Nayef Ahmar , Juanjuan Xiang, David Poeppel, 4 Jonathan Z. Simon 5 1. Program in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, College 6 Park, MD 20742, USA 7 2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, 8 College Park, MD 20742, USA 9 3. Department of Psychology, New York University, New York 10003, USA 10 4. Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York 10003, USA 11 5. Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA 12 13 * Corresponding author: [email protected] 14 † Current Address: Ditech Networks, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA 15 ‡ Current Address: Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA 16 § Current Address: Goldman Sachs, New York, NY 10282, USA 17 ¶ contributed equally to this work 18 19 Running head: auditory cortical dynamics to slow modulations 20