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Etymology
Named after Austrian anatomist Richard L. Heschl (1824–1881).
Noun
Heschl's gyrus (plural Heschl's gyri)
- (neuroanatomy) A convolution of the cortex found in the lateral sulcus on the temporal lobe, and which is the first cortical structure to process incoming auditory information.
2010, David R. Moore, Paul Albert Fuchs, Adrian Rees, The Oxford Handbook of Auditory Science: The Auditory Brain, →ISBN:The study by Penagos et al. (2004) concluded that only lateral Heschl's gyrus was sensitive to changes in pitch salience, supporting the notion that a pitch center exists in this region of auditory cortex.
2019, Albert Costa, translated by John W. Schwieter, The Bilingual Brain, Penguin, published 2021, page 93:In a study conducted with Spanish-Catalan bilinguals it was observed that the volume of the left Heschl's gyrus was greater than in monolingual speakers, both for grey and white matter.
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