Descending Control in the Auditory System: A Perspective.

Keywords: afferent; efferent; auditory; descending control; memory; sound; BEAMS EN afferent efferent auditory descending control memory sound BEAMS 1 3 3 10/25/21 20211018 NES 211018 Once upon a time, I spent hours threading microelectrodes into auditory cortex neurons and counting spikes as the rabbits learned a tone-signaled task. A one-sentence theme of this special issue and of our knowledge of descending control in the auditory system could be "the hearing brain is vast." There is a range of plasticity across the auditory system - a continuum between stability and mutability. [Extracted from the article]