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Science 16 April 1971:
Vol. 172. no. 3980, pp. 286 - 288
DOI: 10.1126/science.172.3980.286
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Unilateral Ablation of the Auditory Cortex in the Cat Impairs Complex Sound Localization

J. Cranford 1, R. Ravizza 1, I. T. Diamond 1, and I. C. Whitfield 2

1 Department of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706
2 Neurocommunications Research Unit, University of Birmingham, Birmingham 15, England

Unilateral ablation of the auditory cortex in the cat results in a profound deficit in attending to stimuli on the side contralateral to the lesion. The deficit is also manifested in an abnormal perception of left-right pulse pairs when the pulse which leads by a few milliseconds is contralateral to the damaged hemisphere.


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