Temporal encoding for auditory computation: Physiology of primary afferent neurons in sound-producing fish

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 6290-6301

  Suzuki, Aae ^a   Kozloski, James ^a,b   Crawford, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory communication; Computation; Electric fish; Hearing; Mormyridae; Neural transformation; Primary afferent; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDIOGRAPHY; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; COCHLEA; COURTSHIP; FISH; HEARING; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPIKE;

EID: 0037101651     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-14-06290.2002     Document Type: Article

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