Responses of cochlear nucleus units in the chinchilla to iterated rippled noises: Analysis of neural autocorrelograms

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2662-2674

  Shofner, William P ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0033021610     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.81.6.2662     Document Type: Article

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