Auditory physiology: cortical assistance for the auditory signals-to-symbols transformation.
How the temporal information that is crucial for understanding speech and music is processed in the brain is poorly understood, but a new study shows how the auditory cortex is tuned to the spectro-temporal acoustic features characteristic of natural biological sounds.
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Department of Neurscience, University of Florida, Gainesville 32610, USA. purvis@mbi.ufl.edu
D000162:Acoustics; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D013997:Time Factors