Responses to exponential frequency modulations in the rat inferior colliculus

Hearing Research

Volumn 98, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 137-151

  Felsheim, Christian ^a   Ostwald, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory system; Direction selective; FM; Modulation rate tuning; Single unit

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY;

EID: 0030248461     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-5955(96)00078-0     Document Type: Article

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