Interaural intensity difference processing in auditory midbrain neurons: Effects of a transient early inhibitory input

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1149-1163

  Oswald, Jeffrey P ^a,b   Klug, Achim ^a,c   Park, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Binaural; Inferior colliculus; Inhibition; Interaural intensity difference; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAT; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

EID: 0033080886     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-03-01149.1999     Document Type: Article

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