Intracellular recordings in response to monaural and binaural stimulation of neurons in the inferior colliculus of the cat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 1997, Pages 7565-7581

  Kuwada, Shigeyuki ^a   Batra, Ranjan ^a   Yin, Tom C T ^b   Oliver, Douglas L ^a   Haberly, Lewis B ^b   Stanford, Terrence R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory pathways; Auditory signal processing; Binaural hearing; Inferior colliculus; Intracellular recordings; Synaptic physiology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; CAT; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MONAURAL HEARING; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030880489     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-19-07565.1997     Document Type: Article

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