In nonhuman primates a scheme for the organisation of the auditory cortex is frequently used to localise auditory processes.The scheme allows a common basis for comparison of functional organisation across nonhuman primate species.However, although a body of functional and structural data in nonhuman primates supports an accepted scheme of nearly a dozen neighbouring functional areas, can this Foot Rest Extrusion scheme be directly applied to humans? Attempts to expand the scheme of auditory cortical fields in humans Baking Mixes have been severely hampered by a recent controversy about the organisation of tonotopic maps in humans, centred on two different models with radically different organisation.
We point out observations that reconcile the previous models and suggest a distinct model in which the human cortical organisation is much more like that of other primates.This unified framework allows a more robust and detailed comparison of auditory cortex organisation across primate species including humans.