Representation of frequency in the primary auditory field of the barn owl forebrain

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3682-3692

  Cohen, Yale E ^a,b,c   Knudsen, Eric I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIRD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOREBRAIN; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0030479080     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.76.6.3682     Document Type: Article

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