Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus

HST.722J/9.044J - Fall 2007
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The dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN): Signal processing, multisensory integration and plasticity (Hancock)

Animation of a DCN fusiform cell based on intracellular labeling and 3D reconstruction by Ken Hancock

Background

  1. Oertel D, Young ED.  What's a cerebellar circuit doing in the auditory system? Trends Neurosci 27:104-110 (2004).  PDF

  2. Rose GJ.  Insights into neural mechanisms and evolution of behavior from electric fish.  Nature Rev Neurosci 5:943-951 (2004).  PDF

Papers for discussion

  1. May BJ.  Role of the dorsal cochlear nucleus in the sound localization behavior of cats. Hear Res 148: 74-87 (2000).  PDF  Discussed 9/13.  

  2. Young ED, Spirou GA, Rice JJ, Voigt HF.  Neural organization and responses to complex stimuli in the dorsal cochlear nucleus. Phil Trans Roy Soc London B 336:407-413 (1992).  PDF  Discussed 9/13

  3. Kanold PO, Young ED.  Proprioceptive information from the pinna provides somatosensory input to cat dorsal cochlear nucleus. J Neurosci 21: 7848-7858 (2001).  PDF   Discussed 9/13

  4. Tzounopoulos T, Kim Y, Oertel D, Trussell LO.  Cell-specific, spike timing-dependent plasticities in the dorsal cochlear nucleus. Nat Neurosci 7:719-725 (2004). PDF  Discussed 9/18

  5. Bell CC.  Memory-based expectations in electrosensory systems. Curr Opin Neurobiol 11: 481-487, 2001.  PDF  Discussed 9/18

  6. Levine RA.  Somatic (craniocervical) tinnitus and the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus hypothesis.  Am J Otolaryngol. 20:351-362 (1999). PDF  Discussed 9/18

Additional readings

  1. Young ED, Davis KA.  Circuitry and function of the dorsal cochlear nucleus.  In Integrative Functions of the Mammalian Auditory Pathway, D Oertel, AN Popper and RR Fay (Eds), New York: Springer (2001). PDF  Thorough review of DCN physiology. 
  2. Reiss LA, Young ED.  Spectral edge sensitivity in neural circuits of the dorsal cochlear nucleus. J Neurosci 25:3680-3691 (2005).  PDF  Recent results on the sensitivity of DCN neurons to spectral features present in natural sounds.
  3. Shore SE, Zhou J.  Somatosensory influence on the cochlear nucleus and beyond.  Hearing Res 216–217:90–99 (2006).  PDF
  4. Kaltenbach JA.  The dorsal cochlear nucleus as a participant in the auditory, attentional and emotional components of tinnitus.  Hearing Res 216–217: 224–234 (2006). PDF  Review of the putative role of DCN in tinnitus.