GABA is involved in spatial unmasking in the frog auditory midbrain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 8143-8151

  Lin, Wen Yu ^a,b   Feng, Albert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicuculline; Hearing; Inferior colliculus; Masking; Release from masking; Signal detection; Spatial unmasking; Stream segregation; Torus semicircularis

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EARDRUM; FROG; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0042336993     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-22-08143.2003     Document Type: Article

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