Directional sensitivity of neurons in the primary auditory (AI) cortex: Effects of sound-source intensity level

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1024-1038

  Reale, Richard A ^a,b   Jenison, Rick L ^a   Brugge, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOUND INTENSITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0037322461     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00563.2002     Document Type: Article

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