The auditory cortex

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

Volumn 181, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 547-557

  Ehret, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Brain mapping; Coincidence coding; Sound pattern representation; Topographical coding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; HUMANS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031445452     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050139     Document Type: Review

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