Spectral envelope coding in cat primary auditory cortex: Linear and non-linear effects of stimulus characteristics

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 926-940

  Calhoun, Barbara M ^a,b   Schreiner, Christoph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex stimulus; Ripple stimuli; Transfer functions

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CATS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; LINEAR MODELS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0031927132     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00102.x     Document Type: Article

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