In this review we take a physiological perspective on the role of voltage‐gated potassium
channels in an identified neuron in the auditory brainstem. The large number of KCN genes …

Abstract Since Hodgkin and Huxley discovered the potassium current that underlies the
falling phase of action potentials in the squid giant axon, the diversity of voltage‐gated …

Sensory organ damage induces a host of cellular and physiological changes in the
periphery and the brain. Here, we show that some aspects of auditory processing recover …

The three-volume work Perceiving in Depth is a sequel to Binocular Vision and Stereopsis
and to Seeing in Depth, both by Ian P. Howard and Brian J. Rogers. This work is much …

Cortical pyramidal neurons receive thousands of synaptic inputs arriving at different
dendritic locations with varying degrees of temporal synchrony. It is not known if different …

The smallest detectable interaural time difference (ITD) for sine tones was measured for four
human listeners to determine the dependence on tone frequency. At low frequencies, 250 …

Many animals use the interaural time differences (ITDs) to locate the source of low frequency
sounds. The place coding theory proposed by Jeffress has long been a dominant model to …

Plasticity of myelination represents a mechanism to tune the flow of information by balancing
functional requirements with metabolic and spatial constraints. The auditory system is …

Highlights•Dendritic compartmentalization is controlled and avoidable.•
Compartmentalization combined with amplification allows neurons to withhold information …

Spatial hearing, and more specifically the ability to localize sounds in space, is one of the
most studied and best understood aspects of hearing. Because there is no coding of …