Psychophysical correlates of contralateral efferent suppression. I. The role of the medial olivocochlear system in 'central masking' in nonhuman primates

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 933-941

  Smith, David W ^a   Turner, Dennis A ^a   Henson, Miriam M ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; MACACA; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEA; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA; MALE; NEURONS, EFFERENT; NOISE; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0033952676     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.428274     Document Type: Article

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