Schematic organization of the proposed sound processing network in the brain (IMAGE)

University of Pittsburgh

Schematic organization of the proposed sound processing network in the brain

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Noisy sound inputs pass through networks of excitatory and inhibitory neurons in the auditory cortex that clean up the signal (in part guided by the listener paying attention) and detect characteristic features of sounds, allowing the brain to recognize communication sounds regardless of variations in how they are uttered by the speaker and surrounding noise.

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Manaswini Kar

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