title: Auditory thalamocortical transformation: structure and function.
abstract: Communicative, predatory, and reproductive behaviors rely on the auditory thalamocortical system, a key nexus that combines, transforms, and distributes virtually all acoustic information relevant to survival. The rules of connectivity for this complex network, both anatomically and functionally, are only beginning to be uncovered. Although the auditory thalamocortical system shares many features with other modalities, its connectivity and information processing principles differ from those of other modalities in many ways. Some physiological and anatomical bases for these differences are the subject of this review.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurobiology, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, USA. jawiner@socrates.berkeley.edu
authors.forename: Jeffery A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Winer
authors.forename: Lee M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Charles C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Christoph E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Schreiner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D013788:Thalamus / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*