Periodicity coding in the primary auditory cortex of the Mongolian gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus): Two different coding strategies for pitch and rhythm?

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

Volumn 181, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 651-663

  Schulze, H ^a,b   Langner, G ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amplitude modulation; Envelope periodicity; Periodotopy; Temporal analysis; Timbre

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GERBIL; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GERBILLINAE; HEARING; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; PITCH PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA; GERBILLINAE; MERIONES UNGUICULATUS;

EID: 0031474290     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050147     Document Type: Article

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