TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Auditory Processing by the Central Nervous System A1 - Kandel, Eric R. A1 - Koester, John D. A1 - Mack, Sarah H. A1 - Siegelbaum, Steven A. Y1 - 2021 N1 - T2 - Principles of Neural Science, 6e AB - HEARING IS CRUCIAL FOR LOCALIZING and identifying sound; for humans, it is particularly important because of its role in the understanding and production of speech. The auditory system has several noteworthy features. Its subcortical pathway is longer than that of other sensory systems. Unlike the visual system, sounds can enter the auditory system from all directions, day and night, when we are asleep as well as when we are awake. The auditory system processes not only sounds emanating from outside the body (environmental sounds, sounds generated by others) but also self-generated sounds (vocalizations and chewing sounds). The location of sound stimuli in space is not conveyed by the spatial arrangement of sensory afferent neurons but is instead computed by the auditory system from representations of the physical cues. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - neurology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180642605 ER -