ABSTRACT
The use of ablation-behavior experimentation to study auditory cortex began during the second half of the 19th century when it was discovered that sensory and motor functions could be localized to different parts of neocortex. Since that time, our views on the role of auditory cortex have gradually evolved as the results of new studies have added to, or revised, previous findings. Sometimes new findings have met with general acceptance; at other times, they have been accompanied by controversy, and the view that prevailed at the time has not always been the correct one. The purpose of this chapter is not only to present our views of the function of auditory cortex, but to describe how we arrived at them.
