Although we hear sounds throughout their duration, studies on anesthetized animals have suggested that auditory cortex neurons primarily detect changes in sound. New evidence in a report in Nature from awake animals is forcing us to reconsider this view.
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Middlebrooks, J. Auditory cortex cheers the overture and listens through the finale. Nat Neurosci 8, 851–852 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn0705-851
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