Frequency extent of two-tone facilitation in onset units in the ventral cochlear nucleus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 380-395

  Jiang, Dan ^a   Palmer, Alan R ^a   Winter, Ian M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b PHYSIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CELL TYPE; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; GUINEA PIG; MEASUREMENT; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030028832     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.75.1.380     Document Type: Article

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