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 …

[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 …

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 …

Somatic Integration of Incoherent Dendritic Inputs in the Gerbil Medial Superior Olive

Y Mackenbach, JGG Borst - Journal of Neuroscience, 2023 - Soc Neuroscience
The medial superior olive (MSO) is a binaural nucleus that is specialized in detecting the
relative arrival times of sounds at both ears. Excitatory inputs to its neurons originating from …

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 …

Physiological diversity influences detection of stimulus envelope and fine structure in neurons of the medial superior olive

BJ Bondy, DB Haimes, NL Golding - Journal of Neuroscience, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
The neurons of the medial superior olive (MSO) of mammals extract azimuthal information
from the delays between sounds reaching the two ears [interaural time differences (ITDs)] …

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 …

Influence of inhibitory synaptic kinetics on the interaural time difference sensitivity in a linear model of binaural coincidence detection

C Leibold - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Temporal correlations between the sound waves arriving at the two ears are used to extract
the azimuthal position of sound sources. Nerve cells in the mammalian medial superior olive …

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 …

[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 …