Spectral-ripple representation of steady-state vowels in primary auditory cortex

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 5 I, 1998, Pages 2502-2514

  Versnel, Huib ^a,b   Shamma, Shihab A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERRET; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEADY STATE; VOWEL;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FERRETS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031812572     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.422771     Document Type: Article

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