variants:
also auditory area
or auditory center
Medical Definition of auditory cortex
: a sensory area of the temporal lobe associated with the organ of hearing
They have found that the auditory cortex is divided into separate fields that process sound information in a hierarchical fashion.— Carol Ezzell, Scientific American, March 2000
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“Auditory cortex.” Merriam-Webster.com Medical Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/auditory%20cortex. Accessed 1 Mar. 2021.
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