Sentences with phrase «human auditory cortex»
Insight into the way the human auditory cortex manages multisensory effects could lead to better understanding of conditions that involve a deficit in audition, such as dyslexia.
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«The idea is that in people with tinnitus there is an over-attention drawn to the auditory cortex, making it more active than in a healthy person,» said Matthew S. Sherwood, Ph.D., research engineer and adjunct faculty in the Department of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering at Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio.
The current finding confirms previous studies that suggested caudal sections of the auditory cortex in humans are involved in interpreting visual speech, but could not use fMRI to properly localize this correlation.
Kayser and his colleagues are now working to build a better understanding of the mapping of auditory fields in the human cortex.
Tracking cortical entrainment in neural activity: auditory processes in human temporal cortex
The process of receiving and decoding spoken words takes place in the auditory cortex, which is the part of the human brain's cerebral cortex that processes auditory input.
Emotional sounds, such as crying and laughter also had a similar pattern of activity, with an area near the primary auditory cortex lighting up in dogs and humans.