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Studies conducted over the past five years have led (1) to a redefinition of the boundaries of auditory cortical fields in cats; (2) to a new understanding of the geometry and sources of input to given cortical fields; and (3) to a much more topographically refined definition of the destinations of projections originating in given auditory cortical fields. This new understanding of auditory thalamocortical and corticothalamic organization has been derived from unit mapping studies and from results of combined (anterograde and retrograde) tracer injections in a physiological-anatomical study during which injections of tracer materials were introduced at functionally defined auditory field sites.
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Merzenich, M.M., Colwell, S.A., Andersen, R.A. (1982). Auditory Forebrain Organization. In: Woolsey, C.N. (eds) Cortical Sensory Organization. Cortical Sensory Organization, vol 3. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5817-9_2
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