Hearing: cortical activation does matter.
Lesion studies have suggested that the auditory cortex may not be involved in many aspects of hearing. A recent report casts doubt on this long-held view by showing that reversible inactivation of the auditory cortex leads to a transient impairment in tone detection and frequency discrimination.
Moore
D R
DR
University Laboratory of Physiology, Parks Road, OX1 3PT, Oxford, UK
Rothholtz
V
V
King
A J
AJ
D000818:Animals; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D006309:Hearing / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans