Effects of interaural time differences on the responses of chinchilla inferior colliculus neurons to consonant-vowel syllables

Hearing Research

Volumn 138, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 29-44

  Chen, Guang Di ^a,b   Sinex, Donal G ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinchilla; Consonant vowel syllable; Inferior colliculus; Interaural time difference; Single unit

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHINCHILLA; CONSONANT; HEARING TEST; HISTOGRAM; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LATENT PERIOD; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOWEL;

ANIMALS; CHINCHILLA; EAR; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; NEURONS; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032730442     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(99)00146-X     Document Type: Article

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