Temporal processing across frequency channels by FM selective auditory neurons can account for FM rate selectivity

Hearing Research

Volumn 122, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 97-108

  Gordon, Michael ^a   O'Neill, William E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory midbrain; Formant transition; Lateral inhibition; Mustached bat; Phonological impairment; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN STEM; CHIROPTERA; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FEMALE; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0032146445     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(98)00087-2     Document Type: Article

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