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Science 31 January 1964:
Vol. 143. no. 3605, pp. 473 - 474
DOI: 10.1126/science.143.3605.473
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Nucleus of the Trapezoid Body: Dual Afferent Innervation

J. M. Harrison 1 and R. Irving 1

1 Department of Psychology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

Lesions of the anterior ventral cochlear nucleus caused degeneration of synaptic endings in the anterior half of the nucleus of the trapezoid body. Lesions of the posterior ventral cochlear nucleus caused similar degeneration in the posterior half of the nucleus of the trapezoid body. Thus, the cochlea projects twice upon the nucleus of the trapezoid body.

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