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

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 ...

What might seem less intuitive is that the auditory cortex would be related to reading. Isn’t reading mainly a visual skill? Not only. To pair letters with speech sounds, we first need to be ...

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 ...

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.