Physiological models of the lateral superior olive

G Ashida, DJ Tollin, J Kretzberg - PLOS Computational Biology, 2017 - journals.plos.org
In computational biology, modeling is a fundamental tool for formulating, analyzing and
predicting complex phenomena. Most neuron models, however, are designed to reproduce …

Specific synaptic input strengths determine the computational properties of excitation–inhibition integration in a sound localization circuit

E Gjoni, F Zenke, B Bouhours… - The Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Key points During the computation of sound localization, neurons of the lateral superior olive
(LSO) integrate synaptic excitation arising from the ipsilateral ear with inhibition from the …

A spiking neural network model of the medial superior olive using spike timing dependent plasticity for sound localization

B Glackin, JA Wall, TM McGinnity… - Frontiers in …, 2010 - frontiersin.org
Sound localization can be defined as the ability to identify the position of an input sound
source and is considered a powerful aspect of mammalian perception. For low frequency …

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 …

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 …

Models of the superior olivary complex

TR Jennings, HS Colburn - Computational models of the auditory system, 2010 - Springer
Sounds in the real world originate from specific sources, either alone or in combination, so
that a natural description of a sound includes its location and other spatial properties. The …

On the precision of neural computation with interaural level differences in the lateral superior olive

Z Bures, P Marsalek - Brain research, 2013 - Elsevier
Interaural level difference (ILD) is one of the basic binaural clues in the spatial localization of
a sound source. Due to the acoustic shadow cast by the head, a sound source out of the …

Developmental fine-tuning of medial superior olive neurons mitigates their predisposition to contralateral sound sources

MC Sierksma, JGG Borst - Plos Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Having two ears enables us to localize sound sources by exploiting interaural time
differences (ITDs) in sound arrival. Principal neurons of the medial superior olive (MSO) are …

The medial superior olivary nucleus

B Grothe, C Leibold, M Pecka - The Oxford Handbook of the …, 2018 - books.google.com
It doesn't get any more precise than this: Neurons in the medial superior olive (MSO) in
many mammals, including humans, are sensitive to temporal differences between their …

Spiking neuron models of the medial and lateral superior olive for sound localisation

JA Wall, LJ McDaid, LP Maguire… - … Joint Conference on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sound localisation is defined as the ability to identify the position of a sound source. The
brain employs two cues to achieve this functionality for the horizontal plane, interaural time …