They do not bark in response to
auditory stimuli like dogs with normal hearing, but they may bark at visual stimuli or at sounds that they can still hear if they are not fully deaf.
Not exact matches
Several clues,
like the fact that many of the cortical
auditory regions responsible for linguistic and musical processing are the same and the existence of
auditory illusions dependent on the mother tongue or dialect, have led investigators to hypothesize that native listening transfers also to non-linguistic sound
stimuli such as music.
«Our brains would
like to match up what we see and what we hear according to where these
stimuli are coming from, but the visual system and the
auditory system figure out where
stimuli are located in two completely different ways,» said Groh, who holds a joint appointment in the department of neurobiology at Duke.
The representational associations of verbal
stimuli take the form of words, facts, concepts, ideas, and the
like, while the representational associations of nonverbal
stimuli are such things as visual and
auditory images, emotional sensations, and the «feeling» of touching objects.