Auditory Functional Neuroanatomy Map

A1

Collosal connected

Bilateral tonotopic (low freq. anterior)

Left

Cochlea

Right

Cochlea

Left

MGN

Pons

Olivary Complex

cross at Trapezoid

Right
MGN

CN VIII

Left

AA

Right

AA

Dorsal System

Posterial

superior

temporal gyrus

(spatial

localization)

Ventral System

Anterior ventral

superior

temporal gyrus

(complex

auditory

sequencing)

Heteromodal

Association

areas

Heteromodal

Association

areas

Internal
Capsule

© 2000, Dennis P. Swiercinsky, Ph.D.

Olivo–

cochlear

feedback

Inferior

Colliculus

Inferior

Colliculus

Lateral

lemnis-

cus