Monaural spectral contrast mechanism for neural sensitivity to sound direction in the medial geniculate body of the cat

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 2754-2771

  Imig, Thomas J ^a   Poirier, Pierre ^a   Irons, W Andrew ^a   Samson, Frank K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0030707766     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.78.5.2754     Document Type: Article

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