Functional neuroimaging of auditory processing.
There is a complex functional organization of the central auditory system from the brainstem to primary and associative auditory cortices. Functional neuroimaging has been used to visualize and confirm the spatial distribution of brain activation in temporal areas for the processing of simple acoustic stimuli. Brain activity is much more complex for words, and different networks can be recruited when phonological, lexical and semantic levels of processing are engaged.
Laureys
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Cyclotron Research Center, University of Liege, Belgium. steven.laureys@ulg.ac.be
Salmon
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Goldman
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Majerus
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D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000379:methods