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1 Speech and Hearing Sciences Program, MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Electrical and Computer Engineering/Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
2 Cognitive Science Department, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
3 Speech and Hearing Sciences Program, MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA, USA
4 Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: tmt{at}ecn.purdue.edu.
Functional neuroimaging experiments have revealed an organization of frequency-dependent responses in human auditory cortex suggestive of multiple tonotopically organized areas. Numerous studies have sampled cortical responses to isolated narrow-band stimuli, revealing multiple locations in auditory cortex at which the position of response varies systematically with frequency content. Because appropriate anatomical or functional grouping of these distinct frequency-dependent responses is uncertain, the number and location of tonotopic mappings within human auditory cortex remains unclear. Further, sampling does not address whether the observed mappings exhibit continuity as a function of position. This fMRI study used frequency-swept stimuli to identify progressions of frequency sensitivity across the cortical surface. The center-frequency of narrow-band, amplitude-modulated noise was slowly swept between 125-8000 Hz. The latency of response relative to sweep onset was determined for each cortical surface location. Because frequency varied systematically with time, response latency indicated the frequency to which a location was maximally sensitive. Areas of cortex exhibiting a progressive change in response latency with position were considered tonotopically organized. There exist two main findings. First, six progressions of frequency sensitivity (i.e., tonotopic mappings) were repeatably observed in the superior temporal plane. Second, the locations of the higher- and lower-frequency endpoints of these progressions were approximately congruent with regions reported to be most responsive to discrete higher- and lower-frequency stimuli. Based on these findings and previous anatomical work, we propose a correspondence between these progressions and anatomically-defined cortical areas, suggesting that five areas in human auditory cortex exhibit at least six tonotopic organizations.
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