Psychophysical and physiological evidence for a precedence effect in the median sagittal plane

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2223-2226

  Litovsky, Ruth Y ^a,c,d   Rakerd, Brad ^b   Yin, Tom C T ^a   Hartmann, William M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^d Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINAURAL HEARING; CAT; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

EID: 0030901937     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.77.4.2223     Document Type: Article

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