The Biological Basis of Audition
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The biological basis of audition.
Audition is one of the fundamental extrasensory percepts in mammals. Two of the primary objectives of audition are to determine where sounds originate from in space and what those sounds are. Neural processing of acoustic signals, which are commonly quite complex under natural conditions, is extensive in the brainstem, midbrain, and thalamus. This processing extracts multiple salient features t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Psychology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0066-4308,1545-2085
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.59.103006.093544