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Mapping the Auditory System in Rhesus Monkeys NIMH, July 2002 University of Iowa Neuroscience Program The University of Iowa Department of Psychology Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
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
2 DG in Intact (left) and Deafferented (right) Hemisphere Early auditory areas MGB IC
Columns of 2-DG activation in rSTG
Metabolic Mapping of Visual Cortex
Metabolic Mapping of Auditory Cortex
Overlap of Auditory and Visual Maps
Auditory and Visual Processing Streams
Parabelt projections to prefrontal cortex Romanski et al., Nature Neuroscience, 1999
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