Prediction of auditory spatial acuity from neural images on the owl's auditory space map

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6950, 2003, Pages 771-774

  Bala, Avinash D S ^a   Spitzer, Matthew W ^a   Takahashi, Terry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; NEUROLOGY;

NEURONS;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

AUDITORY CUE; BIRD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; MESENCEPHALON; MODEL; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND;

ANIMALIA; AVES; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 0042467592     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01835     Document Type: Article

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