Representation of CV-sounds in cat primary auditory cortex: Intensity dependence

Speech Communication

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 93-106

  Wong, Sarah W ^a   Schreiner, Christoph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Distributed representation; Neural activity; Voice onset time

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; AUDITION; SIGNAL ENCODING;

AUDITORY CORTEX;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038018335     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(02)00096-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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