Temporal processing in sensory systems

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 467-473

  Grothe, Benedikt ^a   Klump, Georg M ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

AUDITORY CORTEX; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BIRD; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOUND DETECTION; SPIKE WAVE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EID: 0033859101     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-4388(00)00115-X     Document Type: Review

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