This is another place where visual and auditory information is handled in close proximity.

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"The methods that we've used can be applied to understand how the brain tracks auditory information over time, " Abrams said.

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Auditory information is processed through the medial segment of the nucleus.

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Learning-style theory proposes that each of us absorbs and processes information in one of several distinct ways: visual, auditory, tactile or kinesthetic, for example.

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The right hemisphere is more involved in holistic perception and as a result it processes information by integrating it into perceptual models (visual, spatial, auditory, etc).

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