Without tonal guideposts, listeners of atonal music often struggle to make auditory connections, and only the strong-willed (or experienced) among them survive the undertaking.
In the context of such a hierarchical model of speech comprehension, a more plausible explanation is that increased phase locking of oscillations in auditory cortex to intelligible speech reflects the numerous efferent auditory connections that provide input to auditory cortex from secondary auditory areas and beyond (Hackett et al. 1999, 2007; de la Mothe et al. 2006).
Although sub-cortical auditory connections go through essentially two 'chiasma', one at the connection from CN to SOC and another at connection from SOC to IC, it is well understood that there are (admittedly weaker) ipsilateral as well as contralateral connections throughout.
Such specificity in this visuo-auditory connection could account for our observation of a higher post-training improvement in localizing sound sources located over 30° of eccentricity.
The association between inter-temporal connectivity and language comprehension was specific to the auditory modality; connection strength did not correlate with comprehension scores for written single words (r = −0.14, P = 0.61) or sentences (r = −0.02, P = 0.94).
Several studies have begun to investigate whether these proteins are involved in the formation of auditory system connections.
Therefore, while the TLCv is connected with auditory centers, the connections of the TLCd appear to be related to the visual system.
Despite evidence indicating functional disturbances of the auditory cortex and connections to most of the brain regions implicated in schizophrenia, the STG has to date been largely overlooked in large-scale gene expression, cellular composition and functional studies in schizophrenia.
For example, in the auditory system, corticofugal connections are thought to mediate dynamic changes in the response properties of first-order thalamic receptive fields for species-specific communication sounds [5], either directly or through the thalamic reticular nucleus (TRN).
This study was designed to evaluate the suggestion that during bone vibrator stimulation on skull bone (bone conduction auditory stimulation), a major connection between the site of the bone vibrator and the inner ear is a fluid pathway.
Others demonstrated a connection between auditory processing and attention deficits (Geffner et al. 1996) or learning disabilities (Kraus et al. 1996).
