Modeling of the response of midbrain auditory neurons in the rat to their vocalization sounds based on FM sensitivities

BioSystems

Volumn 40, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 103-109

  Kao, M C ^a   Poon, Paul W F ^b   Sun, X ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Auditory neuron; Frequency modulation; Neural modeling; Receptive field; Vocalization sound

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CELL ACTIVITY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031060505     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0303-2647(96)01635-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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