Spectral-temporal receptive fields of nonlinear auditory neurons obtained using natural sounds

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2315-2331

  Theunissen, Frédéric E ^a   Sen, Kamal ^b   Doupe, Allison J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Field L; Natural sounds; Receptive field; Reverse correlation; Spectro temporal

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY NERVE CELL; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 0034653816     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-06-02315.2000     Document Type: Article

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