The Brain and Hearing: Hearing Disturbances Associated with Local Brain Lesions

One of the ways in which the cerebral organization of sensory sys- tems in general, and the auditory system in particular, can be in- vestigated is by studying defects of the perception and discrimina- tion of acoustic stimuli resulting from destruction of different parts of the auditory system by a pathological focus in them or by their surgical removal. The disturbances accompanying lesions of the peripheral part of the auditory system (disturbances of sound conduction, dis- turbances ari...