Meaning of Heschl's gyrus | Babel Free

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A convolution of the cortex found in the lateral sulcus on the temporal lobe, and which is the first cortical structure to process incoming auditory information.

Examples

“The study by Penagos et al. (2004) concluded that only lateral Heschl's gyrus was sensitive to changes in pitch salience, supporting the notion that a pitch center exists in this region of auditory cortex.”

“In a study conducted with Spanish-Catalan bilinguals […] it was observed that the volume of the left Heschl's gyrus was greater than in monolingual speakers, both for grey and white matter.”

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