title: Connections of the auditory brainstem in a songbird, Taeniopygia guttata. I. Projections of nucleus angularis and nucleus laminaris to the auditory torus.
abstract: Auditory information is important for social and reproductive behaviors in birds generally, but is crucial for oscine species (songbirds), in particular because in these species auditory feedback ensures the learning and accurate maintenance of song. While there is considerable information on the auditory projections through the forebrain of songbirds, there is no information available for projections through the brainstem. At the latter levels the prevalent model of auditory processing in birds derives from an auditory specialist, the barn owl, which uses time and intensity parameters to compute the location of sounds in space, but whether the auditory brainstem of songbirds is similarly functionally organized is unknown. To examine the songbird auditory brainstem we charted the projections of the cochlear nuclei angularis (NA) and magnocellularis (NM) and the third-order nucleus laminaris (NL) in zebra finches using standard tract-tracing techniques. As in other avian species, the projections of NM were found to be confined to NL, and NL and NA provided the ascending projections. Here we report on differential projections of NA and NL to the torus semicircularis, known in birds as nucleus mesencephalicus lateralis, pars dorsalis (MLd), and in mammals as the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus (ICc). Unlike the case in nonsongbirds, the projections of NA and NL to MLd in the zebra finch showed substantial overlap, in agreement with the projections of the cochlear nuclei to the ICc in mammals. This organization could suggest that the "what" of auditory stimuli is as important as "where."
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, PB 92019 Auckland, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Nils O E
authors.initials: NO
authors.lastname: Krützfeldt
authors.forename: Priscilla
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Logerot
authors.forename: M Fabiana
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Kubke
authors.forename: J Martin
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Wild
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D001933:Brain Stem / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D017626:Cochlear Nucleus / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D046369:Finches / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D007245:Inferior Colliculi / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D008297:Male; D013194:Staining and Labeling / Q000379:methods
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