Decoding the auditory corticofugal systems.

Jeffery A Winer

doi:10.1016/j.heares.2005.06.014

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Decoding the auditory corticofugal systems.

Jeffery A Winer

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The status of the organization of the auditory corticofugal systems is summarized. These are among the largest pathways in the brain, with descending connections to auditory and non-auditory thalamic, midbrain, and medullary regions. Auditory corticofugal influence thus reaches sites immediately presynaptic to the cortex, sites remote from the cortex, as in periolivary regions that may have a centrifugal role, and to the cochlear nucleus, which could influence early central events in hearing. Other targets include the striatum (possible premotor functions), the amygdala and central gray (prospective limbic and motivational roles), and the pontine nuclei (for precerebellar control). The size, specificity, laminar origins, and morphologic diversity of auditory corticofugal axons is consonant with an interpretation of multiple roles in parallel descending systems.

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Jeffery A Winer. 2006. Decoding the auditory corticofugal systems.. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2005.06.014

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