Abstract
This volume is an expression of the ongoing application of the concepts and Âtechniques of cellular neurophysiology and cell biology to understanding auditory function. Embedded in this application is a story of the fruits of cross fertilization among scientific fields. Rather than apply traditional methods of neuroanatomy, in vivo extracellular recordings, or spike frequency analysis, many labs began asking questions such as what ion channels are expressed in auditory neurons? How do these channels determine the cellular response to sound? Beyond simply identifying which transmitters were expressed in different neurons, scientists explored the biophysical responses to those transmitters and related them to the response times of synapses.
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I wish to thank the authors of these chapters for their hard work and scholarship. My support was provided by the NIH (grants NS028901 and DC004450).
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Trussell, L.O. (2012). Sound and Synapse. In: Trussell, L., Popper, A., Fay, R. (eds) Synaptic Mechanisms in the Auditory System. Springer Handbook of Auditory Research, vol 41. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9517-9_1
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