title: Comparison of monaural acoustic and electric stimulation: unit types in the cat inferior colliculus.
abstract: This study has shown that 1) the ratio of excitatory and inhibitory inputs to units in the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus is altered when one cochlea is neomycin-deafened and/or electrically stimulated; 2) prestimulus threshold shift and lateral inhibition mechanisms can be used to explain these results; and 3) at high current levels a leakage current into the modiolus can evoke unit population responses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Caulfield, Australia.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Lithgow
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Clark
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D000818:Animals; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D002415:Cats; D003051:Cochlea / Q000502:physiology*; D003638:Deafness / Q000503:physiopathology; D004558:Electric Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D007245:Inferior Colliculi / Q000502:physiology*