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central auditory processing  

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  • The two main functions of hearing are localization and identification of sounds. Central auditory processing deals with the coding of sounds into neural representations in the central auditory pathways, but mostly at the level of the cerebral cortex. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Auditory Processing: Central]

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