Detection of auditory signals by frog inferior collicular neurons in the presence of spatially separated noise

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2848-2859

  Ratnam, R ^a   Feng, A S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; FROG; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0032418851     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.6.2848     Document Type: Article

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