nerve; subsequently, however, they concluded that the recordings had been from aberrant cells of the cochlear nucleus lying central to the glial margin of the VIII nerve (GALAMBOS and DAVIS, 1948). The first successful recordmgs from fibres of the cochlear nerve were made by TASAKI (1954) in the guinea pig. These classical but necessarily limited results were greatly extended by ROSE, GALAMBOS, and HUGHES (1959) in the cat cochlear nucleus and by KATSUKI and co-workers (KATSUKI et at. , 1958, 1961, 1962) in the cat and monkey cochlear nerve. Perhaps the most significant developments have been the introduction of techniques for precise control of the acoustic stimulus and the quantitative analysis of neuronal response patterns, notably by the laboratories of KIANG (e. g. GERSTEIN and KIANG, 1960; KIANG et at. , 1962b, 1965a, 1967) and ROSE (e. g. ROSE et at. , 1967; HIND et at. , 1967). These developments have made possible a large number of quanti tative investigations of the behaviour of representative numbers of neurons at these levels of the peripheral auditory system under a wide variety of stimulus conditions. Most of the findings discussed herein have been obtained on anaesthetized cats. Where comparative data are available, substantially similar results have been obtained in other mammalian species (e. g. guinea pig, monkey, rat). Certain significant differences have been noted in lizards, frogs and fish as would be expect ed from the different morphologies of their organs of hearing (e. g.
Authors, Editors and Affiliations
I. Physiologisches Institut der Universität 852 Erlangen, Germany
Wolf D. Keidel
Center for Neural Sciences and Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
William D. Neff,
William D. Neff
Department of Physiology, Hadassah Medical School, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Moshe Abeles
Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hopital, Uppsala 14, Sweden
GÖran Bredberg
Department of Surgery (Otolaryngology), The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Robert A. Butler
Department of Surgery (Otolaryngology), Duke University, Durham, USA
John H. Casseday
Department of Psychology, Duke University, Durham, USA
John H. Casseday,
Irving T. Diamond
Brain Research Unit, Université de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
John E. Desmedt
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Solomon D. Erulkar
Medical Research Council Group, Department of Communication, University of Keele, Keele, Great Britain
E. F. Evans
Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Jay M. Goldberg
School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Moise H. Goldstein
Laboratory of Psychophysics and Social Relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
David M. Green
Department of Otolaryngology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Ivan M. Hunter-Duvar
Department of Psychology and Applied Research Laboratories, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Lloyd A. Jeffress
Communication Sciences, Laboratories University of Florida, Grainesville, USA
William A. Yost
Institut für Elektroakustik der Technischen Universität, München, Germany
E. Zwicker
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Auditory System
Book Subtitle: Physiology (CNS) · Behavioral Studies Psychoacoustics
Authors: Moshe Abeles, GÖran Bredberg, Robert A. Butler, John H. Casseday, John E. Desmedt, Irving T. Diamond, Solomon D. Erulkar, E. F. Evans, Jay M. Goldberg, Moise H. Goldstein, David M. Green, Ivan M. Hunter-Duvar, Lloyd A. Jeffress, William D. Neff, William A. Yost, … E. Zwicker