Individual Variability in Functional Organization of the Human and Monkey Auditory Cortex.

ABSTRACT: Accumulating evidence shows that auditory cortex (AC) of humans, and other primates, is involved in more complex cognitive processes than feature segregation only, which are shaped by experience-dependent plasticity and thus likely show substantial individual variability. However, thus far, individual variability of ACs has been considered a methodological impediment rather than a phenomenon of theoretical importance. Here, we examined the variability of ACs using intrinsic functional connectivity patterns in humans and macaques. Our results demonstrate that in humans, interindividual variability is greater near the nonprimary than primary ACs, indicating that variability dramatically increases across the processing hierarchy. ACs are also more variable than comparable visual areas and sho

SUBMITTER: Ren J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8023837 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature