Effects of Amplitude Modulation on the Coding of Interaural Time Differences of Low-Frequency Sounds in the Inferior Colliculus. I. Response Properties

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2818-2826

  Sterbing, S J ^a   D'Angelo, W R ^a   Ostapoff, E M ^a   Kuwada, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CODING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; NEURONS; RABBITS; REACTION TIME; SOUND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0242425703     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00268.2003     Document Type: Article

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