New roles for synaptic inhibition in sound localization

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 540-550

  Grothe, Benedikt ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIRD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EAR; EVOLUTION; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SOUND DETECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNAPSE; DEPOLARIZATION; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BIRDS; EAR; EVOLUTION; NEURAL INHIBITION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNAPSES;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0041706669     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1136     Document Type: Article

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