Responses of neurons in cat primary auditory cortex to bird chirps: Effects of temporal and spectral context

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 8619-8632

  Bar Yosef, Omer ^a   Rotman, Yaron ^a   Nelken, Israel ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Bird chirps; Cats; Electrophysiology; Frequency modulated tones; Natural sounds; Single neurons

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BIRD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENERGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOUND;

EID: 0036813077     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-19-08619.2002     Document Type: Article

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