Sensitivity to interaural temporal disparities of low- and high- frequency neurons in the superior olivary complex. I. Heterogeneity of responses

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1222-1236

  Batra, Ranjan ^a   Kuwada, Shigeyuki ^a   Fitzpatrick, Douglas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; FEMALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SOUND DETECTION; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030866133     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.78.3.1222     Document Type: Article

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