Topography of interaural temporal disparity coding in projections of medial superior olive to inferior colliculus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 7438-7449

  Oliver, Douglas L ^a   Beckius, Gretchen E ^a,b   Bishop, Deborah C ^a   Loftus, William C ^a   Batra, Ranjan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b PFIZER INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory pathways; Binaural hearing; Cat; Neural pathways; Neuroanatomy methods; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RETINA; SOUND DETECTION; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CAT; CYTOLOGY; HEARING; KINETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

DEXTRAN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; DEXTRANS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; KINETICS; NEURONS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS;

EID: 0042237827     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-19-07438.2003     Document Type: Article

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