Auditory processing in primate cerebral cortex

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 164-170

  Kaas, Jon H ^a   Hackett, Troy A ^a   Tramo, Mark Jude ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY MEMORY; BRAIN REGION; COCHLEA; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENICULATE NUCLEUS; HEARING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TOPOGRAPHY; VISION;

EID: 0032935313     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(99)80022-1     Document Type: Article

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