On large scales, in A1 there are tonotopic maps, but on small scales, neighboring cells can be tuned very differently. Zac & Kelson looked at this order and disorder in the functional representations in A1. To reconcile this, they imaged 3D volumes and found that there is a fractured columnar small-world functional network organization. Read the paper in PNAS Nexus

Jonah trained mice on auditory tasks for >6 months while they aged and showed with imaging that the detrimental effects of aging on hearing were mostly absent. Read the paper here in Hearing Research