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That's a good question, I'd need to ask a neurologist friend of mine. IIRC there are some areas that are localized almost in the sense of a circuit. Hearing i
by uniqueuid 5y ago
That's a good question, I'd need to ask a neurologist friend of mine.
IIRC there are some areas that are localized almost in the sense of a circuit.
Hearing is an example, which needs to process sensory information much faster (and more direct) than ordinary pathways would, in order to be able to construct spatial representation from latency differences.
- porkbrain 5y agoI suppose "more direct" can be interpreted differently, but to the best of my knowledge the signal from your cochlea takes more axonal jumps[0] than e.g. visual, which jumps "only" through LGM[1]. Even more direct is the olfactory pathway which skips the thalamus altogether[2]. However, in the context of the article you might be referring only to intertelencephalic processing, in which case I'd love to read a paper which compares the directness of hearing vs other modalities. [0]: https://teachmeanatomy.info/neuroanatomy/pathways/auditory-pathway https://teachmeanatomy.info/neuroanatomy/pathways/auditory-p... [1]: https://www.ophthalmologyreview.org/articles/the-afferent-visual-pathway https://www.ophthalmologyreview.org/articles/the-afferent-vi... [2]: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncir.2015.00049/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncir.2015.0004...
- uniqueuid 5y agoHi @porkbrain, it's going to take a few days but I'll ask and come back with such an article if my friend (whose specialty is auditory processing and sensor fusion) can recommend one.