In the STS these processes likely reflect higher order auditory functions such as the mapping of acoustic cues onto stored vocal representations with a particular significance to the individual [51], [52].
Congenital deafness causes large changes in the auditory cortex structure and function, such that without early childhood cochlear-implant, profoundly deaf children do not develop intact, high-level, auditory functions.
It will be interesting to combine in future studies between cochleotopic mapping and high order auditory functions (like voice recognition).
There is ongoing concern in the medical and imaging research communities regarding the detrimental effects of high acoustic levels on auditory function, patient anxiety, verbal communication between patients and health care workers and ultimately MR image quality.
We argue that higher-order language combinatorics, including sentence and discourse processing, can be situated in a unified, cross-species dorsal-ventral streams architecture for higher auditory processing, and that the functions of the dorsal and ventral streams in higher-order language processing can be grounded in their respective computational properties in primate audition.
The discrepancy between those findings and our study might also be due to our failure to measure BOLD responses in higher auditory areas that might be more lateralized in their function than the primary auditory region.
Finally, independent-samples t-tests demonstrated that the Connec group possessed better language function than the Connec group, with significantly higher auditory single word comprehension scores (P = 0.027), and a strong trend towards higher auditory sentence comprehension scores (P = 0.057).
The psychoacoustic measurements showed a higher auditory sensitivity to changes in level, i.e., a steepened loudness growth function, compared to participants of a control group with a similar cultural background.
Tmc gene therapy restores auditory function in deaf mice.
"This is one of the ongoing mysteries in auditory neuroscience: What distinguishes the early auditory cortex from the higher auditory cortex?
