“…Several studies have now shown that the rostral recognition "what" pathway, seen for intelligibility in speech, is not only seen for speech: music and other identifiable environmental sounds also recruit the anterior temporal lobes in humans. There is compelling evidence that sound recognition is processed by parallel and distinct streams within these anterior fields (Norman-Haignere et al, 2015, 2022Boebinger et al, 2021). This strongly suggests that while speech may often appear to dominate in these regions, that may be a function of the predominance of studies that focus on speech, and of the well-established speech processing problems that arise due to damage in left middle temporal artery territory.…”