title: Serial and parallel processing in the primate auditory cortex revisited.
abstract: Over a decade ago it was proposed that the primate auditory cortex is organized in a serial and parallel manner in which there is a dorsal stream processing spatial information and a ventral stream processing non-spatial information. This organization is similar to the "what"/"where" processing of the primate visual cortex. This review will examine several key studies, primarily electrophysiological, that have tested this hypothesis. We also review several human-imaging studies that have attempted to define these processing streams in the human auditory cortex. While there is good evidence that spatial information is processed along a particular series of cortical areas, the support for a non-spatial processing stream is not as strong. Why this should be the case and how to better test this hypothesis is also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Center for Neuroscience and Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA. ghrecanzone@ucdavis.edu
authors.forename: Gregg H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Recanzone
authors.forename: Yale E
authors.initials: YE
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001303:Auditory Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011323:Primates; D013017:Sound Localization / Q000502:physiology
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