The posterior field P of cat auditory cortex: Coding of envelope transients

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 125-141

  Heil, Peter ^a   Irvine, Dexter R F ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAT; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND INTENSITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0031917926     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/8.2.125     Document Type: Article

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