In subject area: Psychology ‘Auditory cortex’ is defined as the array of cortical areas that receives its principal thalamic input from either the ventral (MGv) or dorsal (MGd) divisions of the medial geniculate complex (MGC) (see Shared Features of the Auditory System of Birds and Mammals...
Changes in the auditory cortex of children receiving gene therapy for deafness Children with DFNB9 deafness receiving gene therapy in either one ear or both ears exhibited enhanced activation in parts of the auditory speech cortex, which occurred as early as four weeks after surgery, as well as...
PsychologyCognitive SciencesLanguage, Communication and CultureLinguisticsThe listening advantage for native speech is well known, but the neural basis of the effect remains unknown. Here we test the hypothesis that attentional enhancement in auditory cortex is stronger for native speech, using magneto...
All of the studies mentioned above used extracellular recording techniques to study cortical function. Recently, many investigators have begun to record from auditory cortex using intracellular recording techniques, making it possible to study the synaptic and cellular mechanisms that give rise to auditory...
We examined the role of auditory cortex in extinction of auditory-based fear memories with a standard TONE-ON conditioning, wherein a tone CS predicted a footshock unconditioned stimulus (US), or a novel TONE-OFF conditioning, in which the tone was continually present and th...
More generally, the discussion on iconicity ratings can be framed within a broader debate on the role of introspection in psychology and cognitive science. While in the psychological literature it is common practice to employ explicit ratings as independent variables to predict behavioral data (see fo...
Alpha oscillations in the auditory cortex have been associated with attention and the suppression of irrelevant information. However, their anatomical organization and interaction with other neural processes remain unclear. Do alpha oscillations function
and relevance are given to the stimulus. Such higher-order functions originate from many regions of the brain—eg, prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, nucleus basalis of Meynert, and limbic circuits—that have either direct or indirect connections with each other and the auditory cortex.[16][17][18...
The primary auditory cortex receives auditory information from the thalamus. The left posterior superior temporal gyrus is responsible for the perception of sound, and in itthe primary auditory cortex is the region where the attributes of sound (pitch, rhythm, frequency, etc.) are processed. ...
J. Spectro-temporal modulation transfer function of single voxels in the human auditory cortex measured with high-resolution fMRI. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 14611–14616 (2009). 27. Hackett, T. A., Preuss, T. M. & Kaas, J. H. Architectonic identification of the core region in...