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 …

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

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 …

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 …

Subthreshold resonance properties contribute to the efficient coding of auditory spatial cues

MWH Remme, R Donato… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Neurons in the medial superior olive (MSO) and lateral superior olive (LSO) of the auditory
brainstem code for sound-source location in the horizontal plane, extracting interaural time …

Varying overall sound intensity to the two ears impacts interaural level difference discrimination thresholds by single neurons in the lateral superior olive

JJ Tsai, K Koka, DJ Tollin - Journal of neurophysiology, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
The lateral superior olive (LSO) is one of the earliest sites in the auditory pathway involved
in processing acoustical cues to sound location. LSO neurons encode the interaural level …

Interaural level difference discrimination thresholds for single neurons in the lateral superior olive

DJ Tollin, K Koka, JJ Tsai - Journal of Neuroscience, 2008 - Soc Neuroscience
The lateral superior olive (LSO) is one of the earliest sites in the auditory pathway that is
involved in processing acoustical cues to sound location. Here, we tested the hypothesis …

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 …

An inhibitory glycinergic projection from the cochlear nucleus to the lateral superior olive

DJ Weingarten, E Sebastian, J Winkelhoff… - Frontiers in Neural …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Auditory brainstem neurons in the lateral superior olive (LSO) receive excitatory input from
the ipsilateral cochlear nucleus (CN) and inhibitory transmission from the contralateral CN …

Neural delays shape selectivity to interaural intensity differences in the lateral superior olive

TJ Park, B Grothe, GD Pollak, G Schuller… - Journal of …, 1996 - Soc Neuroscience
Neurons in the lateral superior olive (LSO) respond selectively to interaural intensity
differences (IIDs), one of the chief cues used to localize sounds in space. LSO cells are …

Linear coding of complex sound spectra by discharge rate in neurons of the medial nucleus of the trapezoid body (MNTB) and its inputs

K Koka, DJ Tollin - Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The interaural level difference (ILD) cue to sound location is first encoded in the lateral
superior olive (LSO). ILD sensitivity results because the LSO receives excitatory input from …