Auditory cortical onset responses revisited. I. First-spike timing

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 2616-2641

  Heil, Peter ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAT; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030977975     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.77.5.2616     Document Type: Article

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