Directional selectivity and frequency tuning of midbrain cells in the oyster toadfish, Opsanus tau

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 189, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 527-543

  Edds Walton, P L ^a,b   Fay, R R ^a,b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Directional hearing; Nucleus centralis; Nucleus ventrolateralis; Torus semicircularis

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BATRACHOIDIFORMES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; VESTIBULE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BATRACHOIDIFORMES; BIOTIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0042976449     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-003-0428-9     Document Type: Article

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