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Hearing in a World of Light: Why, Where, and How Visual and Auditory Information Are Connected by the Brain

by
Jennifer M. Groh
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
J. Eye Mov. Res. 2019, 12(7), 1; https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.12.7.3
Published: 25 November 2019

Abstract

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Information about eye movements with respect to the head is required for reconciling visual and auditory space. This keynote presentation describes recent findings concerning how eye movements affect early auditory processing via motor processes in the ear (eye movement-related eardrum oscillations, or EMREOs). Computational efforts to understand how eye movements are factored in to auditory processing to produce a reference frame aligned with visual space uncovered a second critical issue: sound location is not mapped but is instead rate (meter) coded in the primate brain, unlike visual space. Meter coding would appear to limit the representation of multiple simultaneous sounds. The second part of this presentation concerns how such a meter code could use fluctuating activity patterns to circumvent this limitation

Keynote by Jenny Groh (Duke University) at the 20th European Conference on Eye Movement Research (ECEM) in Alicante, 19.8.2019

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Groh, J.M. Hearing in a World of Light: Why, Where, and How Visual and Auditory Information Are Connected by the Brain. J. Eye Mov. Res. 2019, 12, 1. https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.12.7.3

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Groh JM. Hearing in a World of Light: Why, Where, and How Visual and Auditory Information Are Connected by the Brain. Journal of Eye Movement Research. 2019; 12(7):1. https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.12.7.3

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Groh, Jennifer M. 2019. "Hearing in a World of Light: Why, Where, and How Visual and Auditory Information Are Connected by the Brain" Journal of Eye Movement Research 12, no. 7: 1. https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.12.7.3

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Groh, J. M. (2019). Hearing in a World of Light: Why, Where, and How Visual and Auditory Information Are Connected by the Brain. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 12(7), 1. https://doi.org/10.16910/jemr.12.7.3

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