Unraveling the principles of auditory cortical processing: can we learn from the visual system?

Journal article

Studies of auditory cortex are often driven by the assumption, derived from our better understanding of visual cortex, that basic physical properties of sounds are represented there before being used by higher-level areas for determining sound-source identity and location. However, we only have a limited appreciation of what the cortex adds to the extensive subcortical processing of auditory information, which can account for many perceptual abilities. This is partly because of the approaches...

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Authors: King, A; Nelken, I

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Nature neuroscience
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 698-701
• Publication date: 2009-06-01
• DOI: 10.1038/nn.2308
• EISSN: 1546-1726
• ISSN: 1097-6256
• Language: English
• Keywords: Neural Pathways; Visual Perception; Auditory Cortex; Animals; Brain Mapping; Pitch Perception; Neurons; Auditory Perception; Humans; Auditory Pathways; Action Potentials; Sound Localization; Visual Cortex