The role of timing in the brain stem auditory nuclei of vertebrates

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 61, Issue , 1999, Pages 497-519

  Oertel, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory system; Hearing; Phase locking; Temporal coding

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIRD; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; HEARING; MAMMAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OCTOPUS; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPTILE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEA; EAR; HUMANS; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS; VERTEBRATES; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 0033040564     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.61.1.497     Document Type: Review

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