The discovery of cannabinoid receptors and subsequent identification of their endogenous
ligands (endocannabinoids) in early 1990s have greatly accelerated research on …

The ability to determine the location of a sound source is fundamental to hearing. However,
auditory space is not represented in any systematic manner on the basilar membrane of the …

Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying
increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged …

Various lines of evidence accumulated over the past 30 years indicate that the cerebellum,
long recognized as essential for motor control, also has considerable influence on …

The development of the mammalian cerebellum is orchestrated by both cell-autonomous
programs and inductive environmental influences. Here, we describe the main processes of …

When animals interact with complex environments, their neural circuits must separate
overlap** patterns of activity that represent sensory and motor information. Pattern …

The rhombic lip (RL) is an embryonic proliferative neuroepithelium that generates several
groups of hindbrain neurons. However, the precise boundaries and derivatives of the RL …

Aging and acoustic trauma may result in partial peripheral deafferentation in the central
auditory pathway of the mammalian brain. In accord with homeostatic plasticity, loss of …

This chapter outlines the anatomy and physiology of the auditory pathways. After a brief
analysis of the external, middle ears, and cochlea, the responses of auditory nerve fibers are …

In the dorsal cochlear nucleus, long-term synaptic plasticity can be induced at the parallel
fiber inputs that synapse onto both fusiform principal neurons and cartwheel feedforward …