The musical centers of the brain: Vladimir E. Larionov (1857-1929) and the functional neuroanatomy of auditory perception.

•V. E. Larionov was a physician-researcher and a pioneer of otoneurology.•He precisely mapped cortical auditory areas in relation to the tonotopic nature of their cell organization.•He further provided clinical data on the ‘musical centers of the brain’ and related pathologies.•He contributed to Bekhterev’s concepts on ‘conduction paths in the brain’.