Coding of amplitude modulation in the auditory midbrain of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) across metamorphosis

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 219-231

  Boatright Horowitz, S S ^a   Garabedian, C E ^a   Odabashian, K H ^c   Simmons, A M ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Anurans; Metamorphosis; Phase locking; Tadpoles; Torus semicircularis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FROG; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; MESENCEPHALON; METAMORPHOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMICIRCULAR CANAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; LARVA; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MESENCEPHALON; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; RANA CATESBEIANA; SEMICIRCULAR CANALS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; RANA CATESBEIANA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033082312     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003590050320     Document Type: Article

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