Neuron Cover

The cover shows an ear morphing into an eye, symbolizing a shift in auditory processing from an ear-centered frame of reference to a representation that depends both on the ears and also on where the eyes are looking. In the primate auditory pathway, many neural responses to sound depend both on where the sound is located with respect to the ears and also on where the sound is located with respect to the eyes. For more information, see:

Groh JM, Trause, A. S., Underhill, A. M., Clark, K. R, Inati, S. 2001. Eye position influences auditory responses in primate inferior colliculus. Neuron, 29:509-518; Werner-Reiss, U, Kelly, KA, Trause, AS, Underhill, AM and Groh, JM. 2003. Eye position affects activity in primary auditory cortex of primates. Current Biology, 13:554-562.

Metzger RR, Mullette-Gillman OA, Underhill AM, Cohen YE, Groh JM. 2004. Auditory saccades from different initial eye positions: implications for coordinate transformations in the primate brain. Journal of Neurophysiology, 92:2622-2627.

Mullette-Gillman, OA., Cohen, YE, Groh, JM. 2005. Eye-centered, head-centered, and complex coding of visual and auditory targets in the intraparietal sulcus. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94:2331-2352.

Porter, KK, Metzger, RR, and Groh, JM. 2006. The representation of eye position in primate inferior colliculus. J. Neurophysiol, 95:1826-42.