Response Properties of Single Neurons in the Zebra Finch Auditory Midbrain: Response Patterns, Frequency Coding, Intensity Coding, and Spike Latencies

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 136-151

  Woolley, Sarah M N ^a   Casseday, John H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FOREBRAIN; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEARING ACUITY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD; SOUND INTENSITY; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TONOTOPY; ZEBRA FISH;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIOTIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEXTRANS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRODES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; SONGBIRDS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0346458507     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00633.2003     Document Type: Article

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