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Book review
The Auditory Cortex, A Synthesis of Human and Animal Research
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Edited by Reinhard Konig, Peter Heil, Eike Budinger, Henning Scheich. Published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey, 2005, £62.95 (hardcover), pp 493. ISBN 0-8058-4938-6
A spirit who hears me tapping/The five-sensed cane of mind
Amid such unguessed glories/That I am worse than blind.
H Kemp, Blind, 1919
Most clinical neurologists scarcely spare a thought for the auditory brain: it is what takes over where the VIIIth nerve ends, and if they think of it at all, it is probably in connection with such exotic maladies as cortical deafness or curios like musical hallucinations. But …