Opioid modulation of GABA release in the rat inferior colliculus [PDF]
BMC Neuroscience, 2004 Background The inferior colliculus, which receives almost all ascending and descending auditory signals, plays a crucial role in the processing of auditory information.
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Multiplicative auditory spatial receptive fields created by a hierarchy of population codes. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 A multiplicative combination of tuning to interaural time difference (ITD) and interaural level difference (ILD) contributes to the generation of spatially selective auditory neurons in the owl's midbrain. Previous analyses of multiplicative responses in
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Modulation of Auditory Cortex Activity in Salicylate‐Induced Tinnitus Rats via Deep Brain Stimulation of the Inferior Colliculus [PDF]
Brain and Behavior, Volume 15, Issue 9, September 2025.Deep brain stimulation of the inferior colliculus (ICx) significantly reduces auditory cortex hyperactivity in a rat model of tinnitus. This study highlights ICx stimulation as a promising therapeutic approach for tinnitus‐related neural dysregulation.
Zeinab Akbarnejad +9 more
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The Ventral Tectal Longitudinal Column: A Midbrain Nucleus for Modulation of Auditory Processing in the Cochlear Nucleus, Superior Olivary Complex, and Inferior Colliculus [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Neurology, Volume 533, Issue 8, August 2025.The ventral tectal longitudinal column (TLCv) is a midbrain nucleus thought to provide multisensory modulation of acoustic processing via descending projections to the superior olivary complex. We discovered additional projections from the TLCv to the cochlear nucleus and to the inferior colliculus.
Brett R. Schofield +3 more
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Protocol for identifying sound-activated neurons in the inferior colliculus by cFos immunostaining [PDF]
STAR ProtocolsSummary: cfos is an immediate early gene commonly used to identify neuronal activation. After loud sound stimulation, neurons in the inferior colliculus are activated and cFos is expressed in the nucleus.
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Measurement of inferior colliculus volume based on MRI image stacks and its relationship with age and hearing status. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe inferior colliculus is a key nucleus in the central auditory pathway, integrating acoustic stimuli from both cochleae and playing a crucial role in sound localization.
Pingling Kwok +5 more
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Spatial-dependent suppressive aftereffect produced by a sound in the rat’s inferior colliculus is partially dependent on local inhibition [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 In a natural acoustic environment, a preceding sound can suppress the perception of a succeeding sound which can lead to auditory phenomena such as forward masking and the precedence effect.
Syed Anam Asim +4 more
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Headplate Installation and Craniotomy for Awake In Vivo Electrophysiological Recordings or Two-Photon Imaging of the Mouse Inferior Colliculus [PDF]
Bio-Protocol, 2023 The inferior colliculus (IC) is an important processing center in the auditory system, which also receives non-auditory sensory input. The IC consists of several subnuclei whose functional role in (non-) auditory processing and plastic response ...
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Responses to dichotic tone-in-noise stimuli in the inferior colliculus [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 Human listeners are more sensitive to tones embedded in diotic noise when the tones are out-of-phase at the two ears (N0Sπ) than when they are in-phase (N0S0).
Langchen Fan +5 more
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Tonotopic organization in the depth of human inferior colliculus
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 Experiments in animal models indicate that inferior colliculus (IC), the primary auditory midbrain structure, represents sound frequency in a particular spatial organization, a tonotopy, that proceeds from dorsal and superficial to ventral and deeper ...
David eRess, Bharath eChandrasekaran
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