The current popular and scientific interest in virtual environments has provided a new
impetus for investigating binaural and spatial hearing. However, the many intriguing …

The cochlear nuclei are the first central processors of auditory information and provide
inputs to all the major brainstem and midbrain auditory nuclei. Although the local circuits …

Direct projections from the cochlear nucleus (CN) to the medial geniculate body (MG)
mediate a high-speed transfer of acoustic information to the auditory thalamus. used …

GABA and glycine are the major inhibitory transmitters that attune neuronal activity in the
CNS of mammals. The respective transmitters are mostly spatially separated, that is …

Both glycine and GABA mediate inhibitory synaptic transmission in the ventral cochlear
nucleus (VCN). In mice, the time course of glycinergic inhibition is slow in bushy cells and …

Spherical bushy cells (SBCs) in the anteroventral cochlear nucleus respond to acoustic
stimulation with discharges that precisely encode the phase of low-frequency sound. The …

Tinnitus is a phantom sensation of sound in the absence of acoustic stimulus and can be
induced by ototoxic drugs such as sodium salicylate (SS). Tinnitus is likely related to …

The sense of hearing is mediated by precisely organized neural circuits that encode the
frequency content, timing, and intensity of sounds. Frequency information is coded by the …