Brain Center For ‘Sound Space’ Identified

While the visual regions of the brain have been intensively mapped, many important regions for auditory processing remain terra incognita.

Now, researchers have identified the region responsible for a key auditory process–perceiving “sound space,” the location of sounds.

The findings settle a controversy in earlier studies that failed to establish the auditory region, called the planum temporale, as responsible for perceiving auditory space.

Leon Y. Deouell and colleagues published their findings in the journal Neuron.

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