Tolerance to sound intensity of binaural coincidence detection in the nucleus laminaris of the owl

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 7046-7054

  Peña, Jose Luis ^a   Viete, Svenja ^a   Albeck, Yehuda ^a   Konishi, Masakazu ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

acoustic localization; coincidence detection; interaural time difference; nucleus laminaris; owl; sound intensity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; FEMALE; FOWL; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; THEORY;

EID: 0029973193     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-21-07046.1996     Document Type: Article

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