Medial superior olive in the free-tailed bat: Response to pure tones and amplitude-modulated tones

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1553-1565

  Grothe, Benedikt ^a,c   Park, Thomas J ^b   Schuller, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Zoologisches Institut   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAT; BINAURAL HEARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; MONAURAL HEARING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030975527     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.77.3.1553     Document Type: Article

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