Auditory midbrain laminar structure appears adapted to f0 extraction: Further evidence and implications of the double critical bandwidth

Hearing Research

Volumn 129, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 71-82

  Braun, Martin ^a  

^a Physiological Music Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory spectral integration; Critical bandwidth; Fibrodendritic lamina; Fundamental frequency f0; Inferior colliculus; Stellate cell

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CAT; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MESENCEPHALON; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; STELLATE CELL;

EID: 0032989989     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(98)00223-8     Document Type: Article

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