RT Book, Section A1 Kandel, Eric R. A1 Koester, John D. A1 Mack, Sarah H. A1 Siegelbaum, Steven A. SR Print(0) ID 1192996427 T1 Auditory Processing by the Central Nervous System T2 Principles of Neural Science, 6e YR 2021 FD 2021 PB McGraw Hill PP New York, NY SN 9781259642234 LK accessbiomedicalscience.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1192996427 RD 2024/03/28 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.