Information Content of Auditory Cortical Responses to Time-Varying Acoustic Stimuli

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 301-313

  Lu, Thomas ^a   Wang, Xiaoqin ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CALLITHRIX; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0346458498     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00022.2003     Document Type: Article

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