Temporal and spectral sensitivity of complex auditory neurons in the nucleus HVC of male zebra finches

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 3786-3802

  Theunissen, Frédéric E ^a,b   Doupe, Allison J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Birdsong; Complex sound; HVc; Modulation transfer function; Natural sound; Song system; Speech; Temporal spectral; Time frequency; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0032525278     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-10-03786.1998     Document Type: Article

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