The representation of concurrent vowels in the cat anesthetized ventral cochlear nucleus: Evidence for a periodicity-tagged spectral representation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 1056-1071

  Keilson, Suzanne E ^a   Richards, Virginia M ^b   Wyman, Bradley T ^a   Young, Eric D ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAT; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VOWEL;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; CATS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030796202     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.419859     Document Type: Article

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