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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[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 …

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 …

[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 …

Synaptic inhibition influences the temporal coding properties of medial superior olivary neurons: an in vitro study

B Grothe, DH Sanes - Journal of Neuroscience, 1994 - Soc Neuroscience
The medial superior olive (MSO) functions as a coincidence detector for interaural time and
phase differences by integrating excitatory synaptic inputs. Recent studies demonstrating …

[HTML][HTML] Principal neuron diversity in the murine lateral superior olive supports multiple sound localization strategies and segregation of information in higher …

H Haragopal, BD Winters - Communications Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Principal neurons (PNs) of the lateral superior olive nucleus (LSO) in the brainstem of
mammals compare information between the two ears and enable sound localization on the …

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 …

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 …

Principal cells of the brainstem's interaural sound level detector are temporal differentiators rather than integrators

TP Franken, PX Joris, PH Smith - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
The brainstem's lateral superior olive (LSO) is thought to be crucial for localizing high-
frequency sounds by coding interaural sound level differences (ILD). Its neurons weigh …