Free-field unmasking response characteristics of frog auditory nerve fibers: Comparison with the responses of midbrain auditory neurons

Journal of Comparative Physiology - A Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 187, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 699-712

  Lin, Wen Yu ^a   Feng, Albert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Eighth nerve; Inferior colliculus; Release from masking; Stream segregation; Torus semicircularis

Indexed keywords

ANURA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; FROG; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE FIBER; NOISE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COCHLEAR NERVE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RANA PIPIENS;

EID: 0035663024     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-001-0241-2     Document Type: Article

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