Auditory Processing
Physical DimensionPerceptual Dimension AmplitudeLoudness FrequencyPitch ComplexityTimbre
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Mapping the Auditory System in Rhesus Monkeys University of Iowa Neuroscience Program The University of Iowa Department of Psychology Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
Visual Processing Streams 25 “WHAT” “WHERE”
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Auditory cortex Unfolded view of supratemporal plane and adjoining STG. Belt Parabelt Core Kaas and Hackett, PNAS 2000
Auditory Projection System Lower Brainstem Lower Brainstem IC MGB IC Early Auditory Areas MGB Early Auditory Areas
Auditory Projection System Lower Brainstem Lower Brainstem IC MGB IC Early Auditory Areas MGB Early Auditory Areas Corpus Callosum, Anterior & Posterior Commissures Tectal Commissures
Lower Brainstem Lower Brainstem MGB Early Auditory Areas MGB Early Auditory Areas Forebrain Comm. Tectal Comm. IC Intact side 'Deaf' side
Methods Speakers 2-DG injected intravenously Monkey listens passively for 45 min Wide variety of acoustic stimuli Brain prepared for autoradiography LCGU measured in ROIs throughout brain ROIs compared for hemispheric asymmetries Three surgically prepared monkeys
Auditory Stimuli Passive Listening BIRDS (10%) ENVIRONMENTAL (18%) HUMAN (9%) MONKEYS (31%) MUSIC (12%) OTHER ANIMALS (8%) TONES, SWEEPS, NOISE (12%) 29
2 DG in Intact (left) and Deafferented (right) Hemisphere Early auditory areas MGB IC
A15 “Hearing”“Deaf” 30
31 Poremba et al., Science, 2003
Columns of 2DG activation in rSTG Hearing Side of Deafferented Monkey Completely Intact Monkey 32 Poremba et al., Science, 2003
Metabolic Mapping of Visual Cortex
Metabolic Mapping of Auditory Cortex
Overlap of Auditory and Visual Maps
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Left HemisphereRight Hemisphere Superior Temporal Gyrus (STG) (n=7 monkeys) % of Whole Brain Activity Monkey Vocalizations Complex Sounds and Vocalizations Complex Sounds No Vocalizations Ambient Background Sound Human Vocalizations
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Monkey Vocalizations p<0.001 * Complex Sounds and Vocalizations p<0.01 * FDG Activity in the Dorsal Temporal Pole Ambient Background Noise % of Whole Brain Activity Left HemisphereRight Hemisphere
Monkey Vocalizations p<0.001 * Complex Sounds and Vocalizations p<0.01 * FDG Activity in the Dorsal Temporal Pole Ambient Background Noise Left HemisphereRight Hemisphere Complex Sounds No Vocalizations % of Whole Brain Activity
Ambient Background Sound Monkey Vocalizations % of Whole Brain Activity p < * Monkey Vocalizations Split Brain Monkeys Left HemisphereRight Hemisphere Dorsal Temporal Pole (n=8 intact monkeys, n=3 split brain monkeys) 44Poremba et al., Nature, 2004
Similar Auditory and Visual Processing Streams 57 “What” “Where”
Parabelt projections to prefrontal cortex Romanski et al., Nature Neuroscience, 1999