Coding of sound-source location by ensembles of cortical neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1216-1228

  Furukawa, Shigeto ^a   Xu, Li ^a   Middlebrooks, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Auditory cortex; Neural coding; Neural population; Sound localization; Spatial hearing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUDITORY CORTEX; CAT; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPIKE;

EID: 0034143411     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-03-01216.2000     Document Type: Article

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