New Perspectives on the Owl's Map of Auditory Space

Overview

Journal Curr Opin Neurobiol

Specialties Biology
Neurology

Date 2014 Feb 5

PMID 24492079

Citations 5

Authors

Jose L Pena

Yoram Gutfreund

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Abstract

A map of sound direction was found in the owl's midbrain more than three decades ago. This finding suggested that the brain reconstructs spatial coordinates to represent them. Subsequent research elucidated the variables used to compute the map. Here we provide a review of the processes leading to its emergence and an updated perspective on how and what information is represented.

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