Figure 1.

The ventral auditory pathway in the monkey brain. The ventral auditory pathway begins in core auditory cortex (in particular, the primary auditory cortex A1 and the rostral field R). The pathway continues into the middle-lateral (MLB) and anterolateral (ALB) belt regions, which project directly and indirectly to the ventral prefrontal cortex. Arrows indicate feedforward projections. The figure is modified, with permission, from Hackett et al. (1998) and Romanski et al. (1999a).