“…Interestingly, after auditory deprivation early in life, the only cortical region responsive to sounds is the right ATL (Figure 2C & S1). This observation is consistent with previous brain imaging demonstrations that the normal hearing neonates showed clear right hemisphere dominance for non-linguistic aspects of auditory processing (Perani, Saccuman et al 2010, Arimitsu, Uchida-Ota et al 2011, Bisiacchi and Cainelli 2021, Bourke and Todd 2021). In normal hearing adults, the rATL is associated with voice and speaker identity processing (Kriegstein and Giraud 2004, Elia, Formisano et al 2008, Andics, Mcqueen et al 2010, Bestelmeyer, Belin et al 2011, Andics, Mcqueen et al 2013, Bonte, Hausfeld et al 2014).…”