Researchers Discover Brain Circuits Enabling Hearing Develop Without Sensory Experience
Friday, June 18, 2010 - 15:31
in Biology & Nature
Using a newly applied scientific technique, researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have reached surprising findings about the role of nature versus nurture in the development of the neural circuits in the auditory cortex, the area of the brain that is responsible for processing information about sound.