Neural bases of an auditory illusion and its elimination in owls

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 656-659

  Saberi, Kourosh ^a   Takahashi, Yoshifumi ^a,b   Farahbod, Haleh ^a   Konishi, Masakazu ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BIRD; ILLUSION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; HEAD MOVEMENTS; ILLUSIONS; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; STRIGIFORMES; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033366455     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/10212     Document Type: Article

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