The Auditory Cortex: The Final Frontier

摘要: The auditory cortex consists of 10–15 interconnected areas or fields whose neurons receive a modest input from the thalamus and about 10–100 times more other cortical nonauditory same contralateral hemisphere. Modeling this conglomerate as black box functional network model is potentially doable (Stephan et al. 2000), but that does not give us much insight into how individual compute nature output those to cognitive motor systems. At end scale, there challenge realistic modeling canonical neural typically based on primary visual (Martin 2002). When implemented for columns needs detailed different cell types (Watts Thomson 2005) with ion channels transmitter modulatory systems; even such minimal circuits present daunting complexities. main problem neuroscientist course identify computational has solve. This chapter reviews basic structural elements models basis what currently known function processing. emphasis here vocalizations, speech, music. Some promising analytic approaches have been proposed recently are discussed in light two views function: an information processing system representational system.