The structure of spatial receptive fields of neurons in primary auditory cortex of the cat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 4420-4437

  Brugge, John F ^a   Reale, Richard A ^a   Hind, Joseph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Al; directional hearing; primary auditory cortex; sound localization; spatial hearing; spatial receptive fields; virtual acoustic space

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HEARING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOUND DETECTION;

EID: 0029902168     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-14-04420.1996     Document Type: Article

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