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Functional Specialization in Primary and Non-primary Auditory Cortex

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A long-term goal of auditory neuroscience is to elucidate the behavioral “division of labor” within cat auditory cortex and determine the relative contributions that the different auditory fields make to acoustic behaviors. Here we outline some recent work using reversible cooling deactivation to examine sound localization encoding and the functional cartography of cat auditory cortex. These results, when combined with investigations of underlying cerebral connections and neural function, will constrain hierarchical or network theories that best explain processing in auditory cortex.

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Abbreviations

2DG:

2-deoxyglucose

AAF or A:

anterior auditory field

AES:

auditory field of the anterior ectosylvian sulcus

AI:

primary auditory cortex

AII:

second auditory cortical area

D:

dorsal

dPE or EPD:

dorsal posterior ectosylvian

DZ:

dorsal zone of auditory cortex

FAES:

auditory field of the anterior ectosylvian sulcus

IN:

insular region

iPE or EPI:

intermediate posterior ectosylvian

P:

posterior

PAF or P:

posterior auditory field

PE:

posterior ectosylvian

PS:

posterior suprasylvian sulcus

SIV:

fourth somatotopic cortical representation

SMI-32:

monoclonal antibody to subunits of neurofilament proteins

SPL:

sound pressure level

T:

temporal region

TI:

temporal-insular

V:

ventral

VPAF or VP:

ventral posterior auditory field

vPE or EPV:

ventral posterior ectosylvian

SST:

somatostatin

STG:

superior temporal gyrus

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We thank Erin Woller, Shveta Malhotra, and Jeff Mellott for help with various phases of the work described. This work was supported by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Hearing Foundation of Canada.

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Lomber, S.G., McMillan, A.J. (2011). Functional Specialization in Primary and Non-primary Auditory Cortex. In: Winer, J., Schreiner, C. (eds) The Auditory Cortex. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0074-6_18

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