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Nature Neuroscience 9, 1096–1098 (1 September 2006) | doi:10.1038/nn1755

Representation of interaural time delay in the human auditory midbrain

Sarah K Thompson , Katharina von Kriegstein , Adenike Deane-Pratt , Torsten Marquardt , Ralf Deichmann , Timothy D Griffiths & David McAlpine

Interaural time difference (ITD) is a critical cue to sound-source localization. Traditional models assume that sounds leading at one ear, and perceived on that side, are processed in the opposite midbrain.