Spectro-temporal receptive fields of midbrain auditory neurons in the rat obtained with frequency modulated stimulation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 289, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 9-12

  Poon, Paul W F ^a   Yu, P P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Auditory midbrain; Complex sound coding; Frequency modulation; Inferior colliculus; Spectro temporal receptive field; Trigger point

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUND; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0034726122     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01251-9     Document Type: Article

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