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Morphological and Functional Development of the Auditory System

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There is an extensive body of literature available on both structural and functional properties of the auditory system in adult organisms (Bekesy, 1960; Rasmussen and Windle, 1965; Tobias, 1970–1972; Whit-field, 1967). While most of the anatomical and physiological studies are concerned with subhuman species, particularly the rat, cat, rabbit, and monkey, a few such studies have also been done on humans (Tasker and Organ, 1973). Much less work has been done on the development of the auditory system, at least in humans, and so far, no systematic treatment of morphological and functional characteristics of the developing auditory system is available. Such an undertaking would, needless to say, be of great value both for an understanding of auditory perception in general and for an understanding of more specialized auditory functions, like processing of linguistic stimuli.

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Selnes, O.A., Whitaker, H.A. (1976). Morphological and Functional Development of the Auditory System. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) The Neuropsychology of Language. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2292-4_6

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