The biological basis of audition.
Interest has recently surged in the neural mechanisms of audition, particularly with regard to functional imaging studies in human subjects. This review emphasizes recent work on two aspects of auditory processing. The first explores auditory spatial processing and the role of the auditory cortex in both nonhuman primates and human subjects. The interactions with visual stimuli, the ventriloquism effect, and the ventriloquism aftereffect are also reviewed. The second aspect is temporal processing. Studies investigating temporal integration, forward masking, and gap detection are reviewed, as well as examples from the birdsong system and echolocating bats.
Center for Neuroscience and Section of Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior, University of California at Davis, California 95618, USA. ghrecanzone@ucdavis.edu
Gregg H
GH
Recanzone
Mitchell L
ML
Sutter
D000818:Animals; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D003463:Cues; D008251:Macaca; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D010470:Perceptual Masking / Q000502:physiology; D011601:Psychophysics; D013017:Sound Localization; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology; D013998:Time Perception / Q000502:physiology