The DOI matches its Crossref record.
The Lateral Superior Olive: A Functional Role in Sound Source Localization
Abstract
Sound location in azimuth is signaled by differences in the times of arrival (interaural time difference, ITDs) and the amplitudes (interaural level differences, ILDs) of the stimuli at the ears. Psychophysical studies have shown that low- and high-frequency sounds are localized based on ITDs and ILDs, respectively, suggesting that dual mechanisms mediate localization. The anatomical and physiological bases for this “duplex theory” of localization are found in the medial (MSO) and lateral (LSO) superior olives, two of the most peripheral sites in the ascending auditory pathway receiving inputs from both ears. The MSO and LSO are believed to be responsible for the initial encoding of ITDs and ILDs, respectively. Here the author focuses on ILDs as a cue to location and the role of the LSO in encoding ILDs. Evidence from disparate fields of study supports the hypothesis that the LSO is the initial ILD processor in the mammalian auditory system. NEUROSCIENTIST 9(2): 127–143, 2003.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cited by
Johnston, J., Forsythe, I. D., & Kopp-Scheinpflug, C. (2010) · The Journal of Physiology · doi:10.1113/jphysiol.2010.191973 · Cited by 290
Tonotopic reorganization of developing auditory brainstem circuits
Kandler, K., Clause, A., & Noh, J. (2009) · Nature Neuroscience · doi:10.1038/nn.2332 · Cited by 272
Garcia-Pino, E., Gessele, N., & Koch, U. (2017) · The Journal of Neuroscience · doi:10.1523/jneurosci.2310-16.2017 · Cited by 58
Metadata
- Authors
- Tollin, D. J.
- Venue
- The Neuroscientist
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2003-04
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 127-143
- ISSN
- 1073-8584 (ISSN-L)
- 1089-4098
- OpenAlex
- W2007658601
- Cited by
- 287
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 1.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: The Lateral Superior Olive: A Functional Role in Sound Source Localization. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1177/1073858403252228
- The paper
- Tollin, D. J. (2003). The Lateral Superior Olive: A Functional Role in Sound Source Localization. The Neuroscientist. https://doi.org/10.1177/1073858403252228
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
