Auditory cortex cheers the overture and listens through the finale
John C Middlebrooks
John C. Middlebrooks is at the Kresge Hearing Research Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0506, USA. jmidd@umich.edu
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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