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Auditory neuroscience: the salience of looming sounds
Deborah A Hall1, David R Moore
1MRC Institute of Hearing Research, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK.
Current Biology : CB
|February 8, 2003
Abstract:
Sounds that move towards us have a greater biological salience than those that move away. Recent studies in human and non-human primates have demonstrated a perceptual and behavioural priority for such looming sounds that is also reflected in an asymmetric pattern of cortical activation.