Spatial receptive fields of primary auditory cortical neurons in quiet and in the presence of continuous background noise

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2417-2432

  Brugge, John F ^a   Reale, Richard A ^a   Hind, Joseph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR NERVE; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0031761842     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.5.2417     Document Type: Article

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