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Brain scanning research has shown that the ________ is responsible for identifying sounds, and the _____ is responsible for locating sounds.

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The ventral stream, also known as the "what" stream, is the location in the brain that identifies exactly what is being heard, and the dorsal stream, also known as the "where" stream, is the part of the brain that recognizes where in space that the sound came from.
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