Directional masking of phase locking in the amphibian auditory nerve

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1611-1620

  Wang, Jianxin ^a   Narins, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; COCHLEAR NERVE; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FROG; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION;

ANIMALS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RANA PIPIENS; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0029866156     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.414735     Document Type: Article

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