Marginal shell of the anteroventral cochlear nucleus: Intensity coding in single units of the unanesthetized, decerebrate cat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 71-74

  Ghoshal, S ^a   Kim, D O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory; Brain stem; Olivocochlear; Physiology; Reflex; Sensory processing; Somatosensory; Vestibular

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CAT; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

EID: 0030029961     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12386-7     Document Type: Article

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