Heschl's gyrus

plural Heschl's gyri

1. anatomyA 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.

   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.

   2019, Albert Costa, translated by John W. Schwieter, The Bilingual Brain, Penguin, published 2021, page 93

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   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.

   2010, David R. Moore, Paul Albert Fuchs, Adrian Rees, The Oxford Handbook of Auditory Science: The Auditory Brain, →ISBN

   Synonyms: transverse temporal gyrus, Heschl's convolution