A Comparison of the Linear Tuning Properties of Two Classes of Axons in the Bullfrog Lagena

Brain, Behavior and Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 331-348

  Cortopassi, Kathryn A ^a   Lewis, Edwin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bullfrog lagenar macula; Dynamic order; Inner ear evolution; Linear amplitude tuning curves; Peripheral acoustic sensors; Peripheral equilibrium sensors

Indexed keywords

LAGENA; RANA CATESBEIANA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; FROG; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; INNER EAR; INNERVATION; KINESTHESIA; NERVE FIBER; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VESTIBULAR LABYRINTH; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

ACOUSTIC MACULAE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AXONS; EAR, INNER; EVOLUTION; KINESTHESIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PHYLOGENY; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; RANA CATESBEIANA; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0031616156     PISSN: 00068977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000006546     Document Type: Article

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