Abstract
Auditory cortex, in the classic sense of the term, is taken to be the cluster of anatomically and physiologically distinct areas of temporal neocortex that are uniquely and reciprocally connected with one another and with the medial geniculate body and related thalamic nuclear groups. In humans, as many as seven or eight anatomically distinct auditory cortical fields have been identified on the supratemporal plane and posterolateral superior temporal gyrus (STG) (see Clarke and Morosan, Chapter 2).
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Abbreviations
- AEP:
-
averaged evoked potential
- CT:
-
computed tomography
- ECoG:
-
electrocorticography
- EEG:
-
electroencephalography
- ERBP:
-
event-related band power
- fMRI:
-
functional magnetic resonance imaging
- HDE:
-
hybrid depth electrode
- HG:
-
Heschl’s gyrus
- IFG:
-
inferior frontal gyrus
- LFP:
-
local field potential
- MEG:
-
magnetoencephalography
- MRI:
-
magnetic resonance imaging
- PET:
-
positron emission tomography
- STG:
-
superior temporal gyrus
- vPFC:
-
ventral prefrontal cortex
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Howard, M.A., Nourski, K.V., Brugge, J.F. (2012). Invasive Research Methods. In: Poeppel, D., Overath, T., Popper, A., Fay, R. (eds) The Human Auditory Cortex. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, vol 43. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2314-0_3
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