Sentences with phrase «processes auditory input»

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.

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The recruitment of visual areas for auditory tasks is sometimes thought to underlie the better performance in processing inputs from other senses observed in congenitally blind people.

Neurologists Daniel Winkowski and Eric Knudsen of Stanford University wired 12 owls with electrodes in the areas of their brains that process either visual or auditory input.

In new research, published in an article in The Journal of Neuroscience, Burger and Oline — along with Dr. Go Ashida of the University of Oldenburg in Germany — have investigated auditory brain cell membrane selectivity and observed that the neurons «tuned» to receive high - frequency sound preferentially select faster input than their low - frequency - processing counterparts — and that this preference is tolerant of changes to the inputs being received.

«That suggests these regions are representing something more than just the visual and auditory inputs that are coming in, but a kind of higher - level processing,» Baldassano says.

The primary auditory cortex, the part of the brain where auditory input is processed, has been implicated in tinnitus - related distress.

«We've found that when the brain is deprived of input, whether visual or auditory, those regions that would normally process that input don't seem to have any trouble at all accepting a different type of sensory input,» says Lomber.

Objectives covered in this lesson are as follows: Define key words relating to memory Explain the process of input, processing, storage and output Explain how visual, auditory and meaning of information differ in terms of encoding