title: Cortical representations of pitch in monkeys and humans.
abstract: Pitch perception is crucial for vocal communication, music perception, and auditory object processing in a complex acoustic environment. How pitch is represented in the cerebral cortex has for a long time remained an unanswered question in auditory neuroscience. Several lines of evidence now point to a distinct non-primary region of auditory cortex in primates that contains a cortical representation of pitch.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bendor
authors.forename: Xiaoqin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*; D005829:Geniculate Bodies / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology; D000882:Haplorhini / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D010898:Pitch Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D011323:Primates / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D013045:Species Specificity