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== Processing tone == The transverse temporal gyri are active during auditory processing under [[functional magnetic resonance imaging|fMRI]] for tone and semantic tasks.<ref name=":1" /> Transverse temporal gyri were found in one study to have significantly faster processing rates (33 Hz) in the left hemisphere compared to those in the right hemisphere (3 Hz). Additionally this difference in processing rate was found to be related to the volume of rate-related cortex in the gyri; right transverse temporal gyri were found to be more active during temporal processing, and these gyri were found to have more “rate-related cortex”.<ref name=":0" /> White and grey matter volumes of transverse temporal gyri were not found to relate to this processing speed, although larger white matter volumes in subjects are associated with increased sensitivity to “rapid auditory input”.<ref name=":1">{{cite journal | vauthors = Warrier C, Wong P, Penhune V, Zatorre R, Parrish T, Abrams D, Kraus N | title = Relating structure to function: Heschl's gyrus and acoustic processing | journal = The Journal of Neuroscience | volume = 29 | issue = 1 | pages = 61–9 | date = January 2009 | pmid = 19129385 | pmc = 3341414 | doi = 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3489-08.2009 }}</ref> The role of transverse temporal gyri in auditory processing of tone is demonstrated by a study by Wong, Warrier et al. (2008). This study revealed the following: subjects who could successfully form an association between Mandarin Chinese “pitch patterns” and word meaning were found to have transverse temporal gyri with larger volume than subjects who had “difficulty learning these associations.” Successful completion of the previous task also was found to be associated with a “greater concentration of white matter” in the left transverse temporal gyri of the subject. In general, larger transverse temporal gyri “could be associated with more efficient processing of speech-related cues which could facilitate learning and perceiving new speech sounds.”<ref name=":1" />
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