The purpose of this study was to develop neurobiologically plausible models to account for the response properties of several types of cochlear nucleus neurons. Three cell types — the bushy cells, stellate cells, and fusiform cells — were selected because useful data from intracellular recordings were available for these cell types, and because these three cell types exhibit distinct contrasts in their neuronal signal coding strategies. Stellate cells have primarily linear current-voltage (I–V) characteristics, but both bushy and fusiform cells have highly non-linear I–V characteristics. In light of this, we hypothesize that some of these cells have non-linear voltage-dependent conductances which alter their response properties. We modeled the bushy cell membrane conductance as an exponentially increasing function of membrane voltage, that of the fusiform cell as an exponentially decreasing function of the voltage, and that of the stellate cell as being voltage-independent.