The title
Tonotopic refers to the “anatomic organisation by which specific sound frequencies are received by specific receptors in the inner ear with nerve impulses traveling along selected pathways to specific sites in the brain” (Miriam Webster).
If we split the word into its’ different parts, topic comes from the Greek word topos, meaning place. Tonotopic can thus be simplified as “the place of tones”. This place can refer to where the sound is received, transmitted or perceived, which is the cochlea or the auditory cortex – the part of the brain that receives and interprets sound.
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