Sounds like the auditory cortex has a “what” and a “where” pathway too

For some time now we’ve known that in the brains of humans, monkeys and cats, visual information is processed by two separate streams - one for working out where things are and the other for processing what they are. Now Stephen Lomber and Shveta Malhotra have conducted an experiment on cats and provided perhaps the strongest evidence to date that, in the mammalian brain, sounds too are processed via two separate “what” and “where” streams. Lomber and Malhotra used a new cooling method to rever

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