Key mechanism in the brain's computation of sound location identified

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 16:22 in Biology & Nature

New York University researchers have identified a mechanism the brain uses to help process sound localization. Their findings, which appear in the latest edition of the journal PLoS Biology, focus on how the brain computes the different arrival times of sound into each ear to estimate the location of its source.

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