MODULE 12 - SUGGESTED READING
1) Neuroscience Online: an electronic textbook for the neurosciences. This is a free educational resource provided by the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. It is really superb and we urge you to make use of it. The online version works fine on computers, but since visualization of the figures requires a flash player, they are absent when the material is viewed using an Ipad.
Section 2, Chapter 10: Vestibular System: Structure and Function
10.1 Vestibular System
10.2 Vestibulo-occular Reflex, Nystagmus, and Caloric Testing
Section 2, Chapter 11: Vestibular System: Pathways and Reflexes
11.1 Overview of Ascending and Descending Pathways
11.2 Vestibular Connections to the Oculomotor Nuclei
11.3 Vestibulo-cerebellar Connections
11.4 Lateral and Medial Vestibulospinal Tracts
Section 2, Chapter 12: Auditory System: Structure and Function
12.1 The Vertebrate Hair Cell: Mechanoreceptor Mechanism, Tip Links, K+ and Ca2+ Channels
12.2 Sound: Intensity, Frequency, Outer and Middle Ear Mechanisms, Impedance Matching by Area and Lever Ratios
12.3 The Cochlea: three scalae, basilar membrane, movement of Hair Cells
12.4 Tonotopic Organization
12.5 The range of Sounds to which We Respond; the Neural Tuning Curves
Section 2, Chapter 13: Auditory System: Pathways and Reflexes
13.1 Connections in the Central Auditory System
2) The Nervous System in Action by Michael D. Mann. Click on MANN TEXT to access the internet version of this excellent textbook. The home page provides links to individual chapters and also offers PDF links, making it easy to print copies of the text. You can view the material directly on your computer screen, but print out a copy if possible. The reason to do so is that we will refer to specific pages in the text, and these are not shown in the computer screen version. In Chapter 5 see the following:
Chapter 8 Audition
Chapter 9 The Vestibular System
3) The Digital Anatomist. This is an excellent program developed by the Dept. Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle. It contains a huge library of views of the brain. We will refer to specific figures in many of our modules, including this one.
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