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Science 30 August 2002:
Vol. 297. no. 5586, p. 1462
DOI: 10.1126/science.297.5586.1462b
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Sight, Sound Converge in Owl's Mental Map

Marcia Barinaga

The barn owl uses a mental map tuned to the location of sounds to guide it to its prey. This map requires visual information to continually update its accuracy, yet only now have researchers been able to find out how those visual cues reach the map. Now, on page 1556, neuroscientists report that they have discovered a "gate" in the brain that, when opened, allows the auditory map to receive the visual information it needs.

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