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Neuroanatomy of the Cochlea

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Facts and Models in Hearing

Part of the book series: Communication and Cybernetics ((COMMUNICATION,volume 8))

Abstract

Three innervation components of the cochlea are known:

  • The first, numerically by far the most important component consists of the afferent bipolar cochlear sensory neurons.

  • The second is an efferent nerve supply mainly from the crossed and uncrossed olivo-cochlear tract coming with the vestibular nerve to the periphery and reaching to the cochlear nerve through the anastomosis of Oort.

  • The third component consists of an autonomic nerve supply which originates in the superior cervical ganglion and most probably does not enter the organ of Cortio.

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Spoendlin, H. (1974). Neuroanatomy of the Cochlea. In: Zwicker, E., Terhardt, E. (eds) Facts and Models in Hearing. Communication and Cybernetics, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65902-7_2

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