"Since the early 1900s, scientists believed spoken word recognition took place behind the primary auditory cortex ... such as stroke patients," says Maximilian Riesenhuber, PhD, professor in ...

For decades, scientists have thought that speech processing in the auditory cortex followed a serial pathway, similar to an assembly line in a factory. It was thought that first, the primary ...

Stimulating a specific part of the auditory cortex immediately improved speech perception over background noise in an epilepsy patient, according to new research in JNeurosci. To treat severe ...

including the primary auditory cortex. However, no one has tackled whether vision and touch together are processed differently in deaf people, primarily because in experimental settings ...

For decades, scientists have thought that speech processing in the auditory cortex followed a serial pathway, similar to an assembly line in a factory. It was thought that first, the primary ...

But according to a new study, those who have been deaf since birth actually use the sound-related part of the brain -- known as the primary auditory cortex -- to do even more heavy lifting than ...

The brain scans showed that, in deaf subjects, the auditory cortex was activated when looking at rhythmic patterns of flashing lights (as were parts of the visual processing system). By contrast ...

"and to separate an auditory field—for example [the] primary auditory cortex from higher auditory fields." If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by ...