Abstract
A large part of the tectum is devoted to the analysis of auditory information, and lesions that damage these regions produce profound and irreversible hearing losses. The auditory midbrain is thus necessary, although not sufficient, for normal hearing.
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Aitkin, L.M. (1986). The Auditory Midbrain. In: The Auditory Midbrain. Contemporary Neuroscience. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-460-3_12
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