s+p final exam brain areas

Heschl’s gyrus

pitch perception in music

medial superior olive

• Encodes interaural time differences

lateral superior olive

• Encodes interaural intensity differences

inferior colliculus

• Serves to map auditory space

• Sends info to the superior colliculus to integrate auditory mapping info w visual info

frontal cortex

• implicated in coding tone chroma

• and associative learning, which is important for absolute pitch perception

superior temporal cortex

important for pitch perception

Broca’s aphasia

• Left frontal lobe

• Important for speech production

Wernicke’s area

• Left temporal lobe

• Important for speech comprehension