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Anatomy and Physiology of the Mammalian Auditory System

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Abbreviations

A1:

Primary auditory cortex

AC:

Auditory cortex

AMPA:

α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid

AN:

Auditory nerve

AVCN:

Anteroventral cochlear nucleus

CNC:

Cochlear nucleus complex

CNIC:

Central nucleus of the inferior colliculus

DAS:

Dorsal acoustic stria

DCIC:

Dorsal nucleus of the inferior colliculus

DCN:

Dorsal cochlear nucleus

DLL:

Lateral lemniscus dorsal nucleus

GABA:

γ-Aminobutyric acid

IAS:

Intermediate acoustic stria

IC:

Inferior colliculus

IHC:

Inner hair cell

LCIC:

Lateral cortex of the inferior colliculus

LOC:

Lateral olivocochlear neurons/system

LSO:

Lateral superior olive

MGB:

Medial geniculate body

MGD:

Dorsal division of the medial geniculate body

MGM:

Medial division of the medial geniculate body

MGV:

Ventral division of the medial geniculate body

MNTB:

Medial nucleus of the trapezoid body

MOC:

Medial olivocochlear neurons/system

MSO:

Medial superior olive

NLL:

Nuclei of the lateral lemniscus

NMDA:

N-Methyl-d-aspartate

OHC:

Outer hair cell

PO:

Periolivary nuclei

SOC:

Superior olivary complex

SPO:

Superior paraolivary nucleus

VAS:

Ventral acoustic stria

VCN:

Ventral cochlear nucleus

VLL:

Ventral nucleus of the lateral lemniscus

VNTB:

Ventral nucleus of the trapezoid body

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I am most thankful and indebted to Dr. Nell Cant for her suggestions and constructive criticisms on a previous version of the manuscript.

Financial support was provided by Spanish MINECO (BFU2009-07286) and EU (EUI2009-04083, in the framework of the ERA-NET Network of European Funding for Neuroscience Research).

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    Manuel S. Malmierca

  2. Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Institute for Neuroscience of Castilla y Léon, Salamanca, Spain

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Malmierca, M.S. (2013). Anatomy and Physiology of the Mammalian Auditory System. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_286-1

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