Assessing the auditory dual-pathway model in humans
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Materials and methods
We searched peer-reviewed articles for auditory studies that incorporated either PET or fMRI recordings. With the exception of one spatial study on congenitally blind adults (Weeks et al., 2000), only studies that used normal, healthy adults and reported coordinates in Talairach space (Talairach and Tournoux, 1988) were included in the meta-analysis. In an attempt to reduce the influence of publication biases where spatial and nonspatial hypotheses motivate the research, only studies that
Results and discussion
Table 1 and Fig. 1 summarize the data used in the meta-analysis. Fig. 2 summarizes the findings.
General discussion
The results of this meta-analysis are consistent with a domain-specific model of auditory organization in humans. In keeping with the animal auditory dual-pathway model (Rauschecker and Tian, 2000), it was found that human IPL activity is ubiquitous among tasks that require listeners to compare or evaluate the location of a sound source. Furthermore, spatially processing sounds was also associated with activity around the SFS, as well as in posterior, but not anterior, areas of the temporal
Acknowledgements
This research was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The authors wish to thank two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on the manuscript.
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