The Auditory Midbrain: Structure and Function in the Central Auditory Pathway (Contemporary Neuroscience)

Scientific investigations of a descriptive nature involve increasmgly refined defmltlons of a problem. An idea is transformed after initial experiments into a working hypothesis that has a number of testable consequences Rarely in the neurosciences do such tests completely falsify the hypothesis, more commonly they lead to a modified, more general hypothesis. One could argue that m order to define a scientific problem, one must first understand it. This monograph iss an attempt to draw together knowledge and understandmg from various disciplines, collected from studies carried out over more than 80 yr, of the functions of the auditory midbrain This part of the brain has been of continuing interest to me, from my days as a postgraduate student in the mid-1960s to the present time, because so many ideas about central auditory organization and function have developed from studies of this region.