Located on the surface of the temporal lobes, the primary auditory cortex of each hemisphere processes input from the opposite ear. Cranial nerves, however, communicate with both hemispheres.
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 ...
They state that there is “little evidence for circumscribed areas of the auditory cortex being uniquely ... their model supports a dorsal pathway for extracting a verbal message and a ventral ...
Given the connections between frontal and temporal regions, these anatomical pathways may serve to integrate ... or overdeveloped connections between auditory and motor regions in the brain.