Response patterns and their relationship to frequency analysis in auditory forebrain centers of a songbird

Hearing Research

Volumn 136, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 91-99

  Capsius, Björn ^a   Leppelsack, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex analogue; Field L; Frequency analysis; Mapping; Starling; Telencephalon

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE AUDIOMETRY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; TELENCEPHALON;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; SONGBIRDS; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 0032845330     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(99)00112-4     Document Type: Article

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