Roles for coincidence detection in coding amplitude-modulated sounds

G Ashida, J Kretzberg, DJ Tollin - PLoS computational biology, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Many sensory neurons encode temporal information by detecting coincident arrivals of
synaptic inputs. In the mammalian auditory brainstem, binaural neurons of the medial …

[PDF][PDF] 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 …

Soma-axon coupling configurations that enhance neuronal coincidence detection

JH Goldwyn, MWH Remme… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Coincidence detector neurons transmit timing information by responding preferentially to
concurrent synaptic inputs. Principal cells of the medial superior olive (MSO) in the …

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 …

On the localization of complex sounds: temporal encoding based on input-slope coincidence detection of envelopes

Y Gai, VC Kotak, DH Sanes… - Journal of …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
Behavioral and neural findings demonstrate that animals can locate low-frequency sounds
along the azimuth by detecting microsecond interaural time differences (ITDs). Information …

[HTML][HTML] Coincidence detection in the medial superior olive: mechanistic implications of an analysis of input spiking patterns

TP Franken, P Bremen, PX Joris - Frontiers in neural circuits, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Coincidence detection by binaural neurons in the medial superior olive underlies sensitivity
to interaural time difference (ITD) and interaural correlation (ρ). It is unclear whether this …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Extraction of inter-aural time differences using a spiking neuron network model of the medial superior olive

J Encke, W Hemmert - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The mammalian auditory system is able to extract temporal and spectral features from sound
signals at the two ears. One important cue for localization of low-frequency sound sources in …

Spike encoding mechanisms in the sound localization pathway

P Marsalek, J Kofranek - Biosystems, 2005 - Elsevier
Two distinct neural circuits calculate the direction of incoming sound in mammals. Lower
frequency sounds are processed in the medial superior olive (MSO) and higher frequencies …