Temporal integration and duration tuning in the dorsal zone of cat auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2615-2625

  He, Jufang ^a,b,c   Hashikawa, Tsutomu ^a   Ojima, Hisayuki ^d   Kinouchi, Yohsuke ^b  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^c HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

^d TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

cat; dorsal auditory cortex; duration threshold neuron; duration selective neuron; long latency response; OFF response; temporal summation; temporal suppression

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAT; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

EID: 0030961557     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-07-02615.1997     Document Type: Article

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