Everything about Auditory system

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Auditory systemA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Integration of somatosensory and motor-related information in the auditory systemInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: A system of practical medicineThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Auditory System Development: Primary Auditory Neurons and Their TargetsCited 504 times
5. Go sideways: Cochlear nucleusA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Basilar membraneA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Auditory System Development: Primary Auditory Neurons and Their Targets

  Edwin W. Rubel, Bernd Fritzsch · 2002 · Annual Review of Neuroscience · 504 citations

• Bilirubin and the Auditory System

  Steven M Shapiro, Hajime Nakamura · 2001 · Journal of Perinatology · 97 citations

• Ageing and the auditory system

  A Howarth, G R Shone · 2006 · Postgraduate Medical Journal · 94 citations

• Plasticity in the auditory system

  Dexter R.F. Irvine · 2018 · Hearing Research · 90 citations

• Auditory images. How complex sounds are represented in the auditory system.

  Roy D. Patterson · 2000 · Journal of the Acoustical Society of Japan (E) · 66 citations

• Ontogeny of Auditory System Function

  E W Rubel · 1984 · Annual Review of Physiology · 62 citations

• Adenosine and the Auditory System

  Srdjan Vlajkovic, Gary Housley, Peter Thorne · 2009 · Current Neuropharmacology · 53 citations

• Temporal Processing in the Auditory System

  Colette M. McKay, Hubert H. Lim, Thomas Lenarz · 2012 · Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology · 43 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Integration of somatosensory and motor-related information in the auditory system

  Michael Lohse, Paul Zimmer-Harwood, Johannes C. Dahmen · 2022 · Frontiers in Neuroscience · 50 citations

• The auditory efferent system in mosquitoes

  YuMin M. Loh, Matthew P. Su, David A. Ellis · 2023 · Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology · 37 citations

• Review of blast noise and the auditory system

  Connie B Paik, Michelle Pei, John S Oghalai · 2022 · Hearing Research · 36 citations

• The auditory system of cartilaginous fishes

  Lucille Chapuis, Shaun P. Collin · 2022 · Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries · 32 citations

• The human auditory system and audio

  Milind N. Kunchur · 2023 · Applied Acoustics · 24 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• A system of practical medicineWilliam Pepper Jr, M.D., Alfred L. Loomis · 1885
• This Is Your Brain on MusicDaniel J. Levitin · 2006
• Communication acousticsJens Blauert · 2005
• Speech processing in the auditory systemSteven Greenberg · 2004
• Signals and systems for speech and hearingStuart Rosen, Peter Howell · 1991
• Fish Hearing and BioacousticsJoseph A. Sisneros · 2015
• Analysis, Synthesis, and Perception of Musical SoundsJames Beauchamp · 2006
• 📕Eighth nerve systems in vertebrates other than mammalsNASA Staff, W. R. Mehler · 1974

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🔗 Related topics

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• Basilar membrane The basilar membrane is a stiff structural element, a type of basement membrane within the cochlea of the inner ear which separates two liquid-filled tubes…
• Binaural fusion Binaural fusion or binaural integration is a cognitive process that involves the combination of different auditory information presented binaurally, or…
• Dorsal cochlear nucleus The dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN, also known as the "tuberculum acusticum") is a cortex-like structure on the dorso-lateral surface of the brainstem. Along…
• Cochlea The cochlea is the part of the inner ear involved in hearing. It is a spiral-shaped cavity in the bony labyrinth, in humans making 2.75 turns around its…
• Neural encoding of sound The neural encoding of sound is the representation of auditory sensation and perception in the nervous system. The complexities of contemporary neuroscience…
• Superior olivary complex The superior olivary complex (SOC) or superior olive is a collection of brainstem nuclei that is located in pons, functions in multiple aspects of hearing…
• Ventral cochlear nucleus In the ventral cochlear nucleus (VCN), auditory nerve fibers enter the brain via the nerve root in the VCN. The ventral cochlear nucleus is divided into…