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Research Proposal
Motivation
Speech understanding
Inferior colliculus lesions
Brainstem aphasia?

Plan
fMRI of the inferior colliculi
Subjects
Testing strategies
Anticipated results

Working hypotheses
Language areas on fMRI
Effects of asphyxia at birth
Maturation of the brain
Time-table of myelination
Learning to speak "by ear"
Metabolism in the brain
Protective mechanisms
Catastrophic factors
Brainstem damage
The inferior colliculi on
fMRI scans
Reponses in people with
Lateralized tinnitus
(ringing in the ears).
From Melcher JR et al.
J Neurophysiol  2000; 83:1058.
January 2006
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