Monaural and binaural response properties of single neurons in the rat's dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus

Hearing Research

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 25-40

  Kelly, Jack B ^a   Buckthought, Athena D ^a   Kidd, Sean A ^a  

^a Inst of Neurosci and Dept of P   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic signal processing; Auditory brainstem; Binaural hearing; Lateral lemniscus; Sound frequency; Tonotopic organization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CLICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; MONAURAL HEARING; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUND PRESSURE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; GENICULATE BODIES; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0032146375     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(98)00082-3     Document Type: Article

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