Regional variations of noise-induced changes in operating range in cat AI

Hearing Research

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 107-116

  Ehret, Günter ^a   Schreiner, Christoph E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b WN Keck Ctr Integrative N ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Dynamic range; Noise masking; Response mapping

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CAT; EVOKED RESPONSE; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY;

EID: 0034006218     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-5955(99)00213-0     Document Type: Article

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