Volume 24, Issue. 3, June, 2008


The dual-pathway model of auditory signal processing

 Wen-Jie WANG, Xi-Hong WU, Liang LI  


Department of Psychology, Speech and Hearing Research Center, Key Laboratory on Machine Perception, Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

Abstract 

Similar to the visual dual-pathway model, neurophysiological studies in non-human primates have suggested that the dual-pathway model is also applicable for explaining auditory cortical processing, including the ventral "what" pathway for object identification and the dorsal "where" pathway for spatial localization. This review summarizes evidence from human neuroimaging studies supporting the dual-pathway model for auditory cortical processing in humans.

Keywords

auditory perception; auditory localization; auditory pattern recognition; functional MRI

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