Auditory Functional Neuroanatomy Map
A1
Collosal connected
Bilateral tonotopic (low freq. anterior)
Internal
Capsule
Dorsal System
Ventral System
Left Right
Posterial
Anterior ventral
AA AA
superior
superior
temporal gyrus
temporal gyrus
(spatial
(complex
Left Right
localization)
auditory
MGN MGN
sequencing)
Heteromodal Heteromodal
Association Association
areas areas
Inferior Inferior
Colliculus Colliculus
Pons
Olivary Complex
cross at Trapezoid
Left Right
Cochlea Cochlea
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Lateral
lemnis-
cus
Olivo
cochlear
feedback
CN VIII