The columnar and layer-specific response properties of neurons in the primary auditory cortex of mongolian gerbils

Hearing Research

Volumn 112, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 175-185

  Sugimoto, Shunji ^a   Sakurada, Masaki ^a   Horikawa, Junsei ^a   Taniguchi, Ikuo ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Columnar organization; Layer specificity; Single unit recording

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERBIL; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; TUNING CURVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; GERBILLINAE; NEURONS; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030842731     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(97)00119-6     Document Type: Article

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