Functional localization of neurotransmitter receptors and synaptic inputs to mature neurons of the medial superior olive

K Couchman, B Grothe, F Felmy - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.physiology.org
Neurons of the medial superior olive (MSO) code for the azimuthal location of low-frequency
sound sources via a binaural coincidence detection system operating on microsecond time …

Predicting binaural responses from monaural responses in the gerbil medial superior olive

A Plauška, JG Borst… - Journal of …, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
Accurate sound source localization of low-frequency sounds in the horizontal plane
depends critically on the comparison of arrival times at both ears. A specialized brainstem …

Medial superior olivary neurons receive surprisingly few excitatory and inhibitory inputs with balanced strength and short-term dynamics

K Couchman, B Grothe, F Felmy - Journal of Neuroscience, 2010 - Soc Neuroscience
Neurons in the medial superior olive (MSO) process microsecond interaural time
differences, the major cue for localizing low-frequency sounds, by comparing the relative …

Quantification of the three‐dimensional morphology of coincidence detector neurons in the medial superior olive of gerbils during late postnatal development

PL Rautenberg, B Grothe… - Journal of Comparative …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
In the mammalian medial superior olive (MSO), neurons compute the azimuthal location of
sound sources by temporally precise coincidence detection. It is assumed that the dendritic …

Modulation of synaptic input by GABAB receptors improves coincidence detection for computation of sound location

MJ Fischl, TD Combs, A Klug, B Grothe… - The Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Key points• Organisms localise low frequencies using interaural time disparities (ITDs) in
which specialized neurones in the medial superior olive (MSO) compute submillisecond …

Arrangement of excitatory synaptic inputs on dendrites of the medial superior olive

AR Callan, M Heß, F Felmy, C Leibold - Journal of Neuroscience, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Neurons in the medial superior olive (MSO) detect 10 µs differences in the arrival times of a
sound at the two ears. Such acuity requires exquisitely precise integration of binaural …

Posthearing developmental refinement of temporal processing in principal neurons of the medial superior olive

LL Scott, PJ Mathews, NL Golding - Journal of Neuroscience, 2005 - Soc Neuroscience
In mammals, principal neurons of the medial superior olive (MSO) exhibit biophysical
specializations that enable them to detect sound localization cues with microsecond …

Weak action potential backpropagation is associated with high‐frequency axonal firing capability in principal neurons of the gerbil medial superior olive

LL Scott, TA Hage, NL Golding - The Journal of physiology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Principal neurons of the medial superior olive (MSO) convey azimuthal sound localization
cues through modulation of their rate of action potential firing. Previous intracellular studies …

Directional hearing by linear summation of binaural inputs at the medial superior olive

M van der Heijden, JAM Lorteije, A Plauška… - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
Neurons in the medial superior olive (MSO) enable sound localization by their remarkable
sensitivity to submillisecond interaural time differences (ITDs). Each MSO neuron has its …

Amplitude normalization of dendritic EPSPs at the soma of binaural coincidence detector neurons of the medial superior olive

BD Winters, SX Jin, KR Ledford… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
The principal neurons of the medial superior olive (MSO) encode cues for horizontal sound
localization through comparisons of the relative timing of EPSPs. To understand how the …