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Nature Neuroscience 11, 530 - 531 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nn0508-530

The need for a cool head: reversible inactivation reveals functional segregation in auditory cortex

Christian J Sumner1, Alan R Palmer1 & David R Moore1

  1. The authors are in the MRC Institute of Hearing Research, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK.
    e-mail: chris@ihr.mrc.ac.uk


'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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