Distance-Sensitive Area of Human Auditory Cortex (IMAGE)

Massachusetts General Hospital

Distance-Sensitive Area of Human Auditory Cortex

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This is an image of human cerebral cortex, digitally "inflated" to smooth out normal folds and ridges, showing in red the portion of auditory cortex that responds to the distance from which sounds arrive.

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Jyrki Ahveninen, Ph.D., Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital

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