auditory cortex
nounMedical 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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