Response properties of neurons in the core of the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus of the barn owl

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1343-1352

  Wagner, Hermann ^a,b   Mazer, James A ^a,c   Von Campenhausen, Mark ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coincidence detection; Frequency; Interaural; Time difference

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MONAURAL HEARING; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NEURONS; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 0036459957     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.01970.x     Document Type: Article

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