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Auditory space processing: here, there or everywhere?

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A new imaging study suggests that cortical areas activated during sound-localization tasks also require that sound sources be distinguishable by their spectral or temporal features.

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Figure 1: Flow chart of processing streams in the auditory cortical system of primates.

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