Temporal dynamics of acoustic stimuli enhance amplitude tuning of inferior colliculus neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 128-138

  Galazyuk, Alexander V ^a,b   Llano, Daniel ^a   Feng, Albert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAT; DYNAMICS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

EID: 0033987525     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2000.83.1.128     Document Type: Article

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