Across-frequency nonlinear inhibition by GABA in processing of interaural time difference

Hearing Research

Volumn 111, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 22-30

  Mori, Koichi ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barn owl (Tyto alba); Bicuculline methiodide; External nucleus of the inferior colliculus; Gamma aminobutyric acid type A; Interaural time difference; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BICUCULLINE METHIODIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; IONTOPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BICUCULLINE; BIRDS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; IONTOPHORESIS; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0030869295     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(97)00090-7     Document Type: Article

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