Neural plasticity: how the eye tells the brain about sound location.
Recent studies in owls and ferrets seem to have identified the origin and nature of the visual signals that shape the development of the auditory space map in the midbrain, which ensures that the neural representations of both sensory modalities share the same topographic organization.
King
Andrew J
AJ
University Laboratory of Physiology, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PT, UK.
D000818:Animals; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*