Cortical processing of auditory space: Pathways and plasticity

Spatial Processing in Navigation, Imagery and Perception

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 389-410

  Rauschecker, Josef P ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

auditory cortex; blindness; cortical reorganization; dual pathway hypothesis; functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); parallel processing; parietal cortex; prefrontal cortex; primates, neurophysiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 66749150068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-71978-8_20     Document Type: Chapter

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