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Cortical Response to Auditory Motion Suggests an Asymmetry in the Reliance on Inter-Hemispheric Connections Between the Left and Right Auditory Cortices

¹MRC Institute of Hearing Research, University Park, Nottingham, United Kingdom; and ²Department of Neuropsychology, Montreal Neurological Institute, Rue University, Montreal, Canada

Submitted 25 May 2006; accepted in final form 13 November 2006

The aim of the current study was to measure the brain's response to auditory motion using electroencephalography (EEG) to gain insight into the mechanisms by which hemispheric lateralization for auditory spatial processing is established in the human brain. The onset of left- or rightward motion in an otherwise continuous sound was found to elicit a large response, which appeared to arise from higher-level nonprimary auditory areas. This motion onset response was strongly lateralized to the hemisphere contralateral to the direction of motion. The response latencies suggest that the ipsilateral response to the leftward motion was produced by indirect callosal projections from the opposite hemisphere, whereas the ipsilateral response to the rightward motion seemed to receive contributions from direct thalamocortical projections. These results suggest an asymmetry in the reliance on inter-hemispheric projections between the left and right auditory cortices for auditory spatial processing.