Rat Primary Auditory Cortex is Tuned Exclusively to the Contralateral Hemifield 1

1 Justin D. Yao, Peter Bremen, and John C. Middlebrooks 2 3 (1) Department of Neurobiology & Behavior, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 4 (2) Department of Otolaryngology, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 5 (3) Center for Hearing Research, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 6 (4) Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 7 (5) Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 8 9 Abbreviated title: Contralateral Hemifield Tuning in Rat Auditory Cortex 10 11 Author contributions: JDY, PB, and JCM designed the research; JDY and PB performed the 12 experiments and analyzed the data; JDY, PB, and JCM wrote the paper. 13 14 John C. Middlebrooks (corresponding author) 15 Department of Otolaryngology, University of California at Irvine, Irvine. 16 Medical Sciences E, Room E116 17 University of California, Irvine 18 Irvine, CA 92697-5310 19 Email: [email protected] 20 Phone: (949) 824-0119 21 Fax: (949) 824-0118 22 Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (August 14, 2013). doi:10.1152/jn.00219.2013