Vestibulocochlear nerve (VIII)

Nerves · Latin: Nervus vestibulocochlearis (VIII)

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The vestibulocochlear nerve (auditory vestibular nerve), known as the eighth cranial nerve, transmits sound and equilibrium (balance) information from the inner ear to the brain.

Through olivocochlear fibers, it also transmits motor and modulatory information from the superior olivary complex in the brainstem to the cochlea.

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