Topic: auditory nerve fibres

The cochlear nucleus is the first processing unit of the ascending auditory pathway, where various neuron types integrate spike trains from convergent auditory nerve fibres (ANF). It is known that the neurons in the anteroventral cochlear nucleus (AVCN) differ morphologically and are categorised electrophysiologically, based on the shape of their peri-stimulus-time-histogram (PSTH) in response to acoustic stimulation with pure tones. Previous study on cats (Felis catus) reported that most AVCN neurons increase their firing probability and precision relative to the ANFs that innervate them. Thi