title: Patterns of organization in auditory cortex.
abstract: Previous work has described recently developed techniques that are contributing to advances in the study of the auditory system; some of these techniques have been used to make significant progress in this field. This paper includes a discussion of the tonotopic and binaural organizations of the auditory cortex (especially area AI), the neuronal connections between auditory cortical fields, the relationships between the functional maps and the connectivity patterns, the nature of binaural processing within AI, and the techniques used to assess the structural and functional properties of this portion of the central auditory pathway.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002415:Cats; D003056:Cochlear Nerve / Q000502:physiology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral / Q000502:physiology; D005072:Evoked Potentials, Auditory; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D010898:Pitch Perception / Q000502:physiology; D000159:Vestibulocochlear Nerve / Q000502:physiology*