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Macrocircuits for sound localization use leaky coincidence detectors and specialized synapses
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Macrocircuits for sound localization use leaky coincidence detectors and specialized synapses

Christine V Portfors and Henrique von Gersdorff
Neuron (Cambridge, Mass.), Vol.78(5), pp.755-757
06/05/2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2013.05.034
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/112380
PMCID: PMC3755899
PMID: 23764281
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2013.05.034View
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Abstract

Olivary Nucleus - cytology Neural Inhibition - physiology Hearing Animals Olivary Nucleus - physiology Sound Localization - physiology Neurons - physiology Linear Models Functional Laterality - physiology Nerve Net - physiology
The auditory system computes sound location by detecting submillisecond time differences in the arrival of sound at the two ears. Studies by van der Heijden et al. (2013) and Roberts et al. (2013) in this issue of Neuron shed light on how this is accomplished by the interaction of excitatory and inhibitory synapses.

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