Sharpening of frequency tuning by inhibition in the thalamic auditory nucleus of the mustached bat

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2098-2114

  Suga, Nobuo ^a,b   Zhang, Yunfeng ^a   Yan, Jun ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BAT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030957517     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.77.4.2098     Document Type: Article

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