Effects of interaural intensity difference on the processing of interaural time difference in the owl's nucleus laminaris

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1815-1824

  Viete, Svenja ^a   Peña, José Luis ^a   Konishi, Masakazu ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

interaural intensity difference; interaural time difference; nucleus laminaris; owl; parallel pathways; sound localization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; BIRD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; TIME;

EID: 0343052682     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-05-01815.1997     Document Type: Article

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