AUDITORY CORTEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does auditory cortex mean? 

• AUDITORY CORTEX (noun)
  The noun AUDITORY CORTEX has 1 sense:

1. the cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body

  Familiarity information: AUDITORY CORTEX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUDITORY CORTEX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

auditory area; auditory cortex

Hypernyms ("auditory cortex" is a kind of...):

cortical area; cortical region (any of various regions of the cerebral cortex)

 Context examples 

When humans listen to spoken language, the brain's auditory cortex activity adjusts to follow the rhythms of sentences.

(The Rhythms of Sign Language, NSF)

Cortical deafness refers to loss of hearing due to bilateral auditory cortex lesions.

(Central Hearing Loss, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This occurred in the lower-level auditory cortex, which is responsible for representing sound but does not appear to give it any meaning or significance.

(How does the brain learn categorization for sounds? The same way it does for images, National Science Foundation)

This work has shown that sound processing in the auditory cortex happens in stages, beginning with the analysis of low-level features, such as loudness and pitch.

(Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)

The human auditory cortex was much more responsive than the monkey cortex when they looked at the relative activity between tones and equivalent noisy sounds.

(Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch, National Institutes of Health)

While the natural rhythms in spoken language are similar to what might be considered the preferred frequency for the auditory cortex, this is not true for sign language and the visual cortex.

(The Rhythms of Sign Language, NSF)

Brain scans showed that the human auditory cortex was much more responsive than the monkey cortex when they compared relative activity between the calls and toneless, noisy versions of the calls.

(Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch, National Institutes of Health)

This line of research has revealed that the human auditory cortex contains neurons that respond selectively to music — not to speech or environmental sounds.

(Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)

Maps of the auditory cortex of human and monkey brains had similar hot spots of activity regardless of whether the sounds contained tones.

(Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch, National Institutes of Health)

Because the researchers can look under the hood of the software to see how it handles information at every stage of processing, they can compare each stage with the functions of the auditory cortex, as imaged with fMRI.

(Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)