A neuronal population code for sound localization

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6645, 1997, Pages 871-874

  Fitzpatrick, Douglas C ^a   Batra, Ranjan ^a   Stanford, Terrence R ^a,b   Kuwada, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING ACUITY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; RABBITS; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; THALAMUS;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0030883984     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42246     Document Type: Article

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