Correlation between the activity of single auditory cortical neurons and sound-localization behavior in the macaque monkey

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2723-2739

  Recanzone, Gregg H ^a,b   Guard, Darren C ^a   Phan, Mimi L ^a   Su, Tien I K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HEARING ACUITY; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND DETECTION;

EID: 0034078488     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2000.83.5.2723     Document Type: Article

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