Directionality of auditory nerve fiber responses to pure tone stimuli in the grassfrog, Rana temporaria. I. Spike rate responses

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 493-502

  Jørgensen, Morten Buhl ^a   Christensen Dalsgaard, Jakob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anura; Auditory nerve; Directional hearing; Ear directionality; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EAR; FEMALE; FROG; HEARING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; EAR; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; RANA TEMPORARIA; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; RANA TEMPORARIA;

EID: 0031148665     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050066     Document Type: Article

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