Temporal integration vs. parallel processing: Coping with the variability of neuronal messages in directional hearing of insects

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2147-2156

  Ronacher, Bernhard ^b   Krahe, Rüdiger ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chorthippus biguttulus; Directional hearing; Neuronal encoding; Neuronal reliability; Stimulus redundancy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; GRASSHOPPER; INSECT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GRASSHOPPERS; HEARING; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEURONS, AFFERENT; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0034078230     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00102.x     Document Type: Article

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