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The role of the temporal pole in auditory processing Volume 4, supplément 1, Supplement 1, September 2002

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Service de Neurologie Fonctionnelle et d'Épileptologie, Hôpital Neurologique, 59, boulevard Pinel, 69394 Lyon Cedex 3, France.
  • Page(s) : 29-32
  • Année de parution : 2002

Working in animals, Masterton [2] conclusively demonstrated that the temporal pole and the amygdala are involved in auditory processing, and it is also known that the geniculo-amygdaloid pathway plays an important functional role in hearing [1-3]. Beginning in 1961, Kimura [4] showed that anterior temporal lobectomy in humans resulted in partial or total abolition of dichotic listening test scores for sounds or messages delivered to the [...]