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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cell Tissue Res. 2014 Dec 21;361(1):233–250. doi: 10.1007/s00441-014-2074-7

Fig. 1. Multisensory integration in the central auditory pathway.

Fig. 1

Auditory pathways begin in VCN/DCN: ventral/dorsal cochlear nucleus; The granule cell domain receives a majority of inputs from the somatosensory system (GCD: or marginal cell area of VCN). Somatosensory input is thus “already processed” as it traverses the central auditory pathwyay. Further inputs occur at each separate location. SOC: superior olivary complex; ICC/ICX: central/external nucleus of inferior colliculus; MGv/MGm/MGd: ventral/medial/dorsal nucleus of medial geniculate body; TG: trigeminal ganglion; Sp5: spinal trigeminal nucleus; DRG: dorsal root ganglion; DCoN: dorsal column nucleus; PV: posterior ventral nucleus of thalamus; S1/S2: primary/secondary somatosensory cortex.