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ArticleeLife2025

An anatomical and physiological basis for flexible coincidence detection in the auditory system.

Lauren J Kreeger, Suraj Honnuraiah, Sydney Maeker, Siobhan Shea, Gordon Fishell, Lisa Goodrich

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Article in eLife, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Lauren J KreegerHarvard Medical School, Department of Neurobiology, Boston, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9112-1489
Suraj HonnuraiahHarvard Medical School, Department of Neurobiology, Boston, United States.
Sydney MaekerHarvard Medical School, Department of Neurobiology, Boston, United States.
Siobhan SheaHarvard Medical School, Department of Neurobiology, Boston, United States.
Gordon FishellHarvard Medical School, Department of Neurobiology, Boston, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9640-9278
Lisa GoodrichHarvard Medical School, Department of Neurobiology, Boston, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3331-8600

Funding

Genetic Dissection of Auditory Circuit AssemblyR01DC009223 · NIDCD · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI Lisa Goodrich · 2009 to 2026
$8.4M
Single-Cell Computation in Auditory Brainstem and its Impact on Cortical Coding and BehaviorR01NS118402 · NINDS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI GOLDING, NACE L, GOODRICH, LISA · 2020 to 2024
$4.7M
Development of Specializations Required for Temporal Coding in Octopus CellsF32DC020070 · NIDCD · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI KREEGER, LAUREN J · 2021 to 2023
$216k
NIDCD NIH HHS F32 DC020070NIDCD NIH HHS F32DC020070NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC009223NIDCD NIH HHS R01DC009223NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS118402NINDS NIH HHS R01NS118402
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animals navigate the auditory world by recognizing complex sounds, from the rustle of a predator to the call of a potential mate. This ability depends in part on the octopus cells of the auditory brainstem, which respond to multiple frequencies that change over time, as occurs in natural stimuli. Unlike the average neuron, which integrates inputs over time on the order of tens of milliseconds, octopus cells must detect momentary coincidence of excitatory inputs from the cochlea during an ongoing sound on both the millisecond and submillisecond time scale. Here, we show that octopus cells receive inhibitory inputs on their dendrites that enhance opportunities for coincidence detection in the cell body, thereby allowing for responses both to rapid onsets at the beginning of a sound and to frequency modulations during the sound. This mechanism is crucial for the fundamental process of integrating the synchronized frequencies of natural auditory signals over time.

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Auditory PathwaysAuditory PerceptionBrain StemAcoustic StimulationAnimalsCochleacochlear nucleuscomputational modeldendritehearinginhibitionmouseneuroscienceoctopus cell

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PMID40232945
PMCPMC11999698

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