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11006976

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
13
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-12-28
pubmed:abstractText
The functional architecture of human auditory cortex is still poorly understood compared with that of visual cortex, yet anatomical and electrophysiological studies in non-human primates suggest that the auditory cortex also might be functionally specialized, in a model of parallel and hierarchical organization. In particular, spectral changes such as the formant transitions of speech, or spectral motion (SM) by analogy with visual motion, could be processed in specialized cortical regions. In this study, positron emission tomography (PET) was used to identify which auditory cortical region are involved in SM analysis. We found that a bilateral secondary auditory cortical region, located in the caudal-lateral belt of auditory cortex, was more sensitive to auditory stimuli containing spectral changes than to matched stimuli with a stationary spectral profile. This result suggests that analogies between sensory systems could prove useful in the research into the functional organization of the auditory cortex.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0959-4965
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
11
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2969-72
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
A cortical region sensitive to auditory spectral motion.
pubmed:affiliation
Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, DRM-CEA, Orsay, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't