The brain's sound processing areas are split into two distinct regions — one which determines what a sound is, the other which tracks where it's coming from ...

Belin and Zatorre suggest that the anatomical segregation noted in our analysis of auditory-prefrontal connections ... their model supports a dorsal pathway for extracting a verbal message and ...

Neither human speech nor song develops ... an adult function for the anterior forebrain pathway similar to the role proposed in juveniles: auditory feedback-based evaluation and adaptive ...

Given the connections between frontal and temporal regions, these anatomical pathways may serve to integrate ... or overdeveloped connections between auditory and motor regions in the brain.