A Computational Modeling Study of the Effects of Acoustic Trauma on the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus

The dorsal cochlear nucleus (DCN) is the most complex part of the cochlear nucleus and has been shown to be involved in sound localization and in some auditory perceptual phenomenon, e.g., tinnitus. The responses of DCN neurons have been modeled in several studies, e.g., Zheng and Voigt 2006 [1]. They simulated both DCN principal cell response maps (RMs) and notch-noise responses. In this study, the same DCN model is used to study the effects …