Within- and across-channel processing in auditory masking: A physiological study in the songbird forebrain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 5732-5739

  Hofer, Sonja B ^a,c   Klump, Georg M ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory forebrain; Auditory scene analysis; Bird; Envelope correlation; Masking release; Narrow band noise

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FOREBRAIN; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SONGBIRD; TELEMETRY; TUNING CURVE;

EID: 0038045428     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-13-05732.2003     Document Type: Article

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