Responses of Bat Inferior Collicular and Auditory Cortical Neurons to Pulsatile Amplitude Modulated Sound Pulses

Chinese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 167-176

  Wu, Min ^a,b   Hou, Erika Tientzu ^a   Jen, Philip H S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Bat; Inferior colliculus; Pulse repetition rate

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAT; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; CHIROPTERA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NEURONS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0030344634     PISSN: 03044920     EISSN: 26660059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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