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The asymmetric auditory cortex

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Which side of the brain does what in speech and language processing is a debate that has engaged and divided the neuroscientific community for more than a century. A new study by Flinker et al. provides a more nuanced interpretation of how the left and right hemispheres of the brain process acoustic information important for speech processing.

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Fig. 1: Asymmetric processing of spectral and temporal modulations in the brain.

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  1. Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Moody College of Communication, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

    Liberty S. Hamilton

  2. Department of Neurology, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

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Hamilton, L.S. The asymmetric auditory cortex. Nat Hum Behav 3, 327–328 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0582-x

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