Visual task enhances spatial selectivity in the human auditory cortex

The auditory cortex represents spatial locations differently from other sensory modalities. While visual and tactile cortices utilize topographical space maps, for audition no such cortical map has been found. Instead, auditory cortical neurons have wide spatial receptive fields and together they fo...

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Main Authors: Nelli eSalminen, Joanna eAho, Mikko eSams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2013.00044/full