Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
J Neurophysiol. 2012 Feb;107(3):743-6. doi: 10.1152/jn.00804.2011. Epub 2011 Nov 2.
Pitch perception is an important component of hearing, allowing us to appreciate melodies and harmonies as well as recognize prosodic cues in speech. Multiple studies over the last decade have suggested that pitch is represented by a pitch-processing center in auditory cortex. However, recent data (Barker D, Plack CJ, Hall DA. Cereb Cortex. In press; Hall DA, Plack CJ. Cereb Cortex 19: 576-585, 2009) now challenge these previous claims of a human "pitch center."
音高感知是听觉的一个重要组成部分，使我们能够欣赏旋律和和声，以及识别语音中的韵律提示。过去十年的多项研究表明，音高由听觉皮层中的一个音高处理中心来表示。然而，最近的数据（Barker D, Plack CJ, Hall DA. Cereb Cortex. In press; Hall DA, Plack CJ. Cereb Cortex 19: 576-585, 2009）现在对之前人类“音高中心”的这些说法提出了挑战。
