The role of the cochlea is to transduce complex sound waves into electrical neural activity in
the auditory nerve. Hair cells of the organ of Corti are the sensory cells of hearing. The inner …

Olivocochlear efferents allow the central auditory system to adjust the functioning of the
inner ear during active and passive listening. While many aspects of efferent anatomy …

This comprehensive introduction to the functions of the mammalian ear describes the major
steps by which sound is transformed into nerve impulses. The author leads the reader along …

Brainstem olivocochlear neurons (OCNs) modulate the earliest stages of auditory
processing through feedback projections to the cochlea and have been shown to influence …

A neural connection between the trigeminal ganglion and the auditory brainstem was
investigated by using retrograde and anterograde tract tracing methods: iontophoretic …

Sequencing of the rat genome has allowed a better understanding of the rat physiology and
biology, in turn promising to translate into a better understanding of human biology and …

Neurotransmitters are released via exocytosis of synaptic vesicles involving a fusion
complex consisting of a set of highly conserved proteins, which form a multiprotein complex …

The olivocochlear (OC) efferent innervation of the mammalian inner ear consists of two
subdivisions, medial (MOC) and lateral (LOC), with different peripheral terminations on outer …

Neurons in the lateral superior olive (LSO) compute sound location based on differences in
interaural intensity, coded in ascending signals from the two cochleas. Unilateral destruction …

Introduction In the mammalian auditory pathway, the nuclei of the lateral lemniscus (NLL)
are thought to be exclusively involved in the bottom-up transmission of auditory information …