'What' and 'where' pathways are recognized in the visual system, but do they exist in auditory cortex? A new study uses reversible inactivation to demonstrate a double dissociation between two cortical regions in two tasks.
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Sumner, C., Palmer, A. & Moore, D. The need for a cool head: reversible inactivation reveals functional segregation in auditory cortex. Nat Neurosci 11, 530–531 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0508-530
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