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Further studies of a model for azimuthal encoding: lateral superior olive neuron response curves and developmental processes.

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Blum, JJ; Reed, MC
Published in: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
October 1991

A number of investigators have published measurements of the outputs of single neurons from the lateral superior olive (LSO) of the cat for a variety of auditory signals. The response curves show a very wide range of shapes and thresholds. In this paper, the single neuron response curves predicted by a previously published model for the encoding of azimuthal location by the LSO to the experimental curves are compared. The predicted curves are in good qualitative agreement with the experiments and, in addition, the model provides an explanation of the seemingly paradoxical drop in output as interaural intensity difference (IID) is held fixed and absolute intensities are raised. The particular shape of the response curve depends on the location of the LSO neuron examined. In the model, two possible developmental programs to form the adult pattern of connections from the anteroventral cochlear nucleus and the medial nucleus of the trapezoid body onto the LSO are also examined. In the first, connections are made by a forward stochastic process in which there is a limit on the numbers of synapses formed on each LSO cell. In the second, there is no such limit, but in later developmental stages pruning of synapses occurs which reduces their number to the limit. Both schemes give similar adult connectional patterns. The LSO response curves generated by the model are similar to those observed in LSO neurons of the developing gerbil by Sanes and Rubel [J. Neurosci. 8, 682-700 (1988)]. Thus the model mechanism not only encodes azimuthal location by activity across the population of neurons, but is also consistent with single unit neurophysiological measurements of LSO output in both developing and adult animals.

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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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EISSN

1520-8524

ISSN

0001-4966

Publication Date

October 1991

Volume

90

Issue

4 Pt 1

Start / End Page

1968 / 1978

Related Subject Headings

  • Olivary Nucleus
  • Neurons
  • Models, Neurological
  • Loudness Perception
  • Gerbillinae
  • Dominance, Cerebral
  • Cochlear Nerve
  • Brain Mapping
  • Auditory Threshold
  • Auditory Pathways
 

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Blum, J. J., & Reed, M. C. (1991). Further studies of a model for azimuthal encoding: lateral superior olive neuron response curves and developmental processes. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 90(4 Pt 1), 1968–1978. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.401676
Blum, J. J., and M. C. Reed. “Further studies of a model for azimuthal encoding: lateral superior olive neuron response curves and developmental processes.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 90, no. 4 Pt 1 (October 1991): 1968–78. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.401676.
Blum JJ, Reed MC. Further studies of a model for azimuthal encoding: lateral superior olive neuron response curves and developmental processes. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1991 Oct;90(4 Pt 1):1968–78.
Blum, J. J., and M. C. Reed. “Further studies of a model for azimuthal encoding: lateral superior olive neuron response curves and developmental processes.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 90, no. 4 Pt 1, Oct. 1991, pp. 1968–78. Epmc, doi:10.1121/1.401676.
Blum JJ, Reed MC. Further studies of a model for azimuthal encoding: lateral superior olive neuron response curves and developmental processes. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 1991 Oct;90(4 Pt 1):1968–1978.

Published In

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

DOI

EISSN

1520-8524

ISSN

0001-4966

Publication Date

October 1991

Volume

90

Issue

4 Pt 1

Start / End Page

1968 / 1978

Related Subject Headings

  • Olivary Nucleus
  • Neurons
  • Models, Neurological
  • Loudness Perception
  • Gerbillinae
  • Dominance, Cerebral
  • Cochlear Nerve
  • Brain Mapping
  • Auditory Threshold
  • Auditory Pathways