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Neurosci."],"abstract":"<jats:p>Temporary conductive hearing loss (CHL) can lead to hearing impairments that persist beyond resolution of the CHL. In particular, unilateral CHL leads to deficits in auditory skills that rely on binaural input (e.g., spatial hearing). Here, we asked whether single neurons in the auditory midbrain, which integrate acoustic inputs from the two ears, are altered by a temporary CHL. We introduced 6 weeks of unilateral CHL to young adult chinchillas via foam earplug. Following CHL removal and restoration of peripheral input, single-unit recordings from inferior colliculus (ICC) neurons revealed the CHL decreased the efficacy of inhibitory input to the ICC contralateral to the earplug and increased inhibitory input ipsilateral to the earplug, effectively creating a higher proportion of monaural responsive neurons than binaural. Moreover, this resulted in a \u223c10 dB shift in the coding of a binaural sound location cue (interaural-level difference, ILD) in ICC neurons relative to controls. The direction of the shift was consistent with a compensation of the altered ILDs due to the CHL. ICC neuron responses carried \u223c37% less information about ILDs after CHL than control neurons. Cochlear peripheral-evoked responses confirmed that the CHL did not induce damage to the auditory periphery. We find that a temporary CHL altered auditory midbrain neurons by shifting binaural responses to ILD acoustic cues, suggesting a compensatory form of plasticity occurring by at least the level of the auditory midbrain, the ICC.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fnins.2021.721922","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,1]],"date-time":"2021-11-01T07:11:05Z","timestamp":1635750665000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Temporary Unilateral Hearing Loss Impairs Spatial Auditory Information Processing in Neurons in the Central Auditory System"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Jennifer L.","family":"Thornton","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kelsey L.","family":"Anbuhl","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Daniel J.","family":"Tollin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"B1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"7332","DOI":"10.1523\/jneurosci.0318-17.2017","article-title":"Representation of multidimensional stimuli: quantifying the most informative stimulus dimension from neural responses.","volume":"37","author":"Benichoux","year":"2017","journal-title":"J. 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