The Mammalian Auditory Pathway: Neuroanatomy

✍ Scribed by Douglas B. Webster (auth.), Douglas B. Webster, Arthur N. Popper, Richard R. Fay (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 494
• Series: Springer Handbook of Auditory Research 1
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Springer Handbook of Auditory Research presents a series of com­ prehensive and synthetic reviews of the fundamental topics in modem auditory research. It is aimed at all individuals with interests in hearing research including advanced graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and clinical investigators. The volumes will introduce new investigators to important aspects of hearing science and will help established inves­ tigators to better understand the fundamental theories and data in fields of hearing that they may not normally follow closely. Each volume is intended to present a particular topic comprehensively, and each chapter will serve as a synthetic overview and guide to the literature. As such, the chapters present neither exhaustive data reviews nor original research that has not yet appeared in peer-reviewed journals. The series focusses on topics that have developed a solid data and con­ ceptual foundation rather than on those for which a literature is only beginning to develop. New research areas will be covered on a timely basis in the series as they begin to mature.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
An Overview of Mammalian Auditory Pathways with an Emphasis on Humans....Pages 1-22
The Auditory Nerve: Peripheral Innervation, Cell Body Morphology, and Central Projections....Pages 23-65
The Cochlear Nucleus: Neuronal Types and Their Synaptic Organization....Pages 66-116
The Superior Olivary Complex and Lateral Lemniscal Nuclei....Pages 117-167
Inferior and Superior Colliculi....Pages 168-221
The Functional Architecture of the Medial Geniculate Body and the Primary Auditory Cortex....Pages 222-409
Organization of Olivocochlear Efferent Systems in Mammals....Pages 410-448
Back Matter....Pages 449-485

✦ Subjects

Animal Physiology; Neurosciences