Complexity and temporal dynamics of frequency coding in the awake rat auditory cortex

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2638-2652

  Gaese, Bernhard H ^a   Ostwald, Joachim ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Frequency tuning; Single unit recording; Spectrotemporal analysis; Sprague Dawley

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYNAMICS; EXCITATION; FEMALE; NERVE CELL; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; NEURONS; PITCH PERCEPTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 0344874592     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.03007.x     Document Type: Article

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