The Auditory Midbrain: Structure and Function in the Central Auditory Pathway

Scientific investigations of a descriptive nature involve increasingly refined definitions of a problem. An idea is transformed after initial experiments into a working hypothesis that has a number of testable consequences. Rarely in the neurosci­ ences do such tests completely falsify the hypothesis; more commonly they lead to a modified, more general hypothesis. One could argue that in order to define a scientific problem, one must first understand it. This monograph is an attempt to draw...