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Definition of Auditory area
1. Noun. The cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body.
Medical Definition of Auditory area
1. Area of the temporal lobe concerned with hearing. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Auditory Area
Literary usage of Auditory area
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of human physiology by Robert Tigerstedt, John R Murlin (1906)
"C. THE auditory area H. Munk finds that removal of the temporal lobes on both
sides produces complete deafness, but no other disturbance. ..."
2. The Science of Human Behavior: Biological and Psychological Foundations by Maurice Parmelee (1913)
"... the visual area, the auditory area, the gustatory area, and the motor area
which, he says, "is practically coextensive with the ..."
3. Essentials of Physiology by Francis Arthur Bainbridge, James Acworth Menzies (1916)
"The auditory area.—The localisation of the auditory area is less definite than
that of the visual area, ..."
4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"Evidently the number of auditory neurons aroused into action varies greatly, and
the movement does not cease in the auditory area of the cortex, ..."
5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1898)
"... which their cen- processes bear to the nerve cells of the auditory nuclei of
the ia^ and secondarily to the neurons in the auditory area of the . ..."
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