Behavioral studies of sound localization in the cat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2147-2160

  Populin, Luis C ^a   Yin, Tom C T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal psychophysics; Bandpass stimuli; Behaving cat; Head fixed cat; Sound localization; Summing localization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SOUND DETECTION;

EID: 0032521348     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-06-02147.1998     Document Type: Article

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