“…Medial OC neurons are known to have collaterals projecting to the CN (Winter et al, 1989;Benson and Brown, 1990;Benson and Potashner, 1990;Brown, 1993;Benson et al, 1996;Horváth et al, 2000), and we have previously shown direct excitatory effects of these collaterals on CN neurons, in particular onset chopper neurons (Mulders et al, 2002(Mulders et al, , 2003(Mulders et al, , 2007). These neurons are thought to provide wide band inhibition to other CN neurons (Verhey et al, 2003;Arnott et al, 2004;Neuert et al, 2004) and could be responsible for the modulation of spontaneous activity remaining after cochlear strychnine.…”