Part 1 Anatomy: topographical organization of the projections of the spiral ganglion to the ventral cochlear nucleus, P.A. Leake and R.L. Snyder; auditory nerve terminals and cochlear nucleus nerones - endbulbs of held and spherical bushy cells, D.K. Ryugo; distribution of some cytochemically distinct cell classes in the ventral cochlear of cat and human with emphasis on octopus cells and their projections, J.C. Adams; the mossy fibre-granule cell-cartwheel cell system in the mammalian cochlear nuclear complex, M.E. Dunn et al; organization of the dorsal cochlear nucleus, J.K. Moore; collateral innervation of the cochlear nucleus by lateral and medial olivocochlear neurons - implications for modelling, A.F. Ryan et al; local circuit neurons of the cochlear nuclei probably using inhibitory amino acids as transmitters, K.K. Osen; immunocytochemical aspects of the functional organization of the horseshoe bat's cochlear nucleus, M. Vater et al; distribution of glutamate-like immunoreactivity in the guinea pig cochlear nucleus - a pilot study, C.M. Hackney and K.K. Osen; sensorineural hearing loss and the anatomical substrates for electrical stimulation of the cochlea and cochlear nucleus, D.R. Moore. Part 2 Physiology: coding of noise-embedded spectro-temporal information in the cochlear nucleus, W.S. Rhode and S.R. Creenberg; modification of frequency representation in the cochlear nucleus during the postnatal development in the kitten - a deoxyglucose study, R. Romand and G. Ehret; integrative mechanisms of ventral cochlear nucleus stellate cells - membrane conductances and electronic structure, P.B. Manin et al; inhibitory interactions in the ventral cochlear nucleus - data and model, M.B. Sachs et al; inhibition in the dorsal cochlear nucleus - pharmacological dissection, varieties, nature and possible functions, E.F. Erans and W. Zhao; fusiform cell response properties are shaped by inputs acting on glycine I and Gaba B receptors, D.M. Caspary; a mechanism for the suppression of echoes in the cochlear nuclei, D. Oertel and R.E. Wickesberg; responses to simple and complex sounds in the cochlear nucleus of the guinea-pig, A.R. Palmer et al; a study of the cochlear nuclei by a top-down approach in the owl, M. Konishi. Part 3 Modelling: computer simulations of neural correlations in dorsal cochlear nucleus, H.F. Voigt and K.A. Davis; properties of modelled and networked cochlear nucleus neurones, D.J. Sanders and G.G.R. Green; modelling response patterns in the cochlear nucleus using simple units, G. Meyer and W.A. Ainsworth; a physiological model of auditory selective attention, R. Meddis; contributions to the auditory brainstem to periodicity pitch coding, G. Langner and C.E. Schreiner; auditory processing based on temporal correlation between adjacent spikes trains, F. Berthommier; physiologically plausible modules for the detection of articulatory-acoustic events, Z.L. Wu et al; representation of initial stop consonants (Part contents)