The fMRI Data of Thompson et al. (2006) Do Not Constrain How the Human Midbrain Represents Interaural Time Delay
| Autor: | Leslie R. Bernstein, H. Steven Colburn, Richard M. Stern, Constantine Trahiotis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Sound localization
media_common.quotation_subject Magnetic Resonance Imaging 01 natural sciences Lateral position Sensory Systems Midbrain 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Hearing Otorhinolaryngology Mesencephalon Perception 0103 physical sciences Commentary Humans Percept Psychology 010301 acoustics Binaural recording 030217 neurology & neurosurgery media_common Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | J Assoc Res Otolaryngol |
| ISSN: | 1438-7573 1525-3961 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10162-019-00715-5 |
| Popis: | This commentary provides an alternate interpretation of the fMRI data that were presented in a communication to the journal Nature Neuroscience (Thompson et al., Nat. Neurosci. 9: 1096–1098, 2006 ). The authors argued that their observations demonstrated that traditional models of binaural hearing which incorporate “internal delays,” such as the coincidence-counting mechanism proposed by Jeffress and quantified by Colburn, are invalid, and that a new model for human interaural time delay processing must be developed. We argue that the fMRI data presented do not strongly favor either the refutation or the retention of the traditional models, although they may be useful in constraining the physiological sites of various processing stages. The conclusions of Thompson et al. are based on the locations of maximal activity in the midbrain in response to selected binaural signals. These locations are inconsistent with well-known perceptual attributes of the stimuli under consideration, as is noted by the authors, which suggests that further processing is involved in forming the percept of subjective lateral position. |
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