Repeated stress disrupts auditory processing, making sounds seem quieter over time, as shown in a new study on mice.

They state that there is “little evidence for circumscribed areas of the auditory cortex being uniquely specialized for processing auditory spatial information….” Furthermore, Belin and ...

The cerebral cortex is the largest part of a mammal's brain, and by some measures the most important. In humans in particular, it's where most things happen-like perception, thinking, memory storage ...

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 ...