Browsing Harvard Medical School by Keyword "Auditory System"
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Brain Networks of Novelty-Driven Involuntary and Cued Voluntary Auditory Attention Shifting
(Public Library of Science, 2012)In everyday life, we need a capacity to flexibly shift attention between alternative sound sources. However, relatively little work has been done to elucidate the mechanisms of attention shifting in the auditory domain. ... -
Characterization of Ribeye Subunits in Zebrafish Hair Cells Reveals That Exogenous Ribeye B-Domain and CtBP1 Localize to the Basal Ends of Synaptic Ribbons
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Synaptic ribbons are presynaptic structures formed by the self-association of RIBEYE–the main structural component of ribbon synapses. RIBEYE consists of two domains: a unique N-terminal A-domain and a C-terminal B-domain ... -
Dissociable Influences of Auditory Object vs. Spatial Attention on Visual System Oscillatory Activity
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Given that both auditory and visual systems have anatomically separate object identification (“what”) and spatial (“where”) pathways, it is of interest whether attention-driven cross-sensory modulations occur separately ... -
Investigating the Neural Correlates of Voice versus Speech-Sound Directed Information in Pre-School Children
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Studies in sleeping newborns and infants propose that the superior temporal sulcus is involved in speech processing soon after birth. Speech processing also implicitly requires the analysis of the human voice, which conveys ... -
Middle Ear Cavity Morphology Is Consistent with an Aquatic Origin for Testudines
(Public Library of Science, 2013)The position of testudines in vertebrate phylogeny is being re-evaluated. At present, testudine morphological and molecular data conflict when reconstructing phylogenetic relationships. Complicating matters, the ecological ... -
Multivoxel Pattern Analysis Reveals Auditory Motion Information in MT+ of Both Congenitally Blind and Sighted Individuals
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Cross-modal plasticity refers to the recruitment of cortical regions involved in the processing of one modality (e.g. vision) for processing other modalities (e.g. audition). The principles determining how and where ... -
Mutation of Npr2 Leads to Blurred Tonotopic Organization of Central Auditory Circuits in Mice
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Tonotopy is a fundamental organizational feature of the auditory system. Sounds are encoded by the spatial and temporal patterns of electrical activity in spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) and are transmitted via tonotopically ... -
Response of the Primary Auditory and Non-Auditory Cortices to Acoustic Stimulation: A Manganese-Enhanced MRI Study
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Structural and functional features of various cerebral cortices have been extensively explored in neuroscience research. We used manganese-enhanced MRI, a non-invasive method for examining stimulus-dependent activity in ...