Behavioral Studies of the Olivocochlear Efferent System
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- 1 May 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery
- Vol. 130 (5) , 660-664
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archotol.130.5.660
Abstract
The peripheral auditory system distributes the physical dimensions of an acoustic stimulus across large populations of neurons. The extraction of elemental perceptual attributes, such as loudness, pitch, and location, from this highly encoded representation demands intensive neural computations that involve no less than 9 subcortical nuclei. Information does not simply ascend the processing levels of the central auditory system. Within each nucleus, ascending representations are transformed by descending influences from higher-order neurons to emphasize the specific parameters that characterize a sound.Keywords
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