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Auditory System pp 283–336Cite as

Anatomy of the Afferent Auditory Nervous System of Mammals

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Part of the book series: Handbook of Sensory Physiology ((1534,volume 5 / 1))

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The understanding of the auditory system depends, finally, upon the fitting together of anatomical, physiological and behavioral analyses of the system. Each analysis presents a picture of the system based upon its own experimental procedures. It is the purpose of this chapter to present the auditory system, from acoustic nerve to cerebral cortex, as it stands revealed by anatomical experiments and observations.

All the cited work ofJ. M. Harbison, and some of the cited work of Drs. Feldman, Irving, and Warr was supported in part by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Boston University and in part by a series of grants from the National Science Foundation. The work on this chapter was supported in part by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Boston University.

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