Using fMRI data collected from people viewing film clips, MIT neuroscientists created a comprehensive map of the cerebral ...

People with aphantasia—individuals who report experiencing no visual imagery at all—also showed reduced activation of the brain's visual cortex in response to sounds, according to a new study.

Here we propose an alternative model of functional segregation in the auditory cortex. Our model agrees that the ventral pathway is probably involved in perceiving auditory objects by extracting ...

These visual areas comprise 50% of the total macaque cerebral cortex, whereas only 3% of the macaque cerebral cortex is devoted primarily to auditory functions. Many non-primate mammals have ...