Naturalistic Auditory Contrast Improves Spectrotemporal Coding in the Cat Inferior Colliculus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 37, 2003, Pages 11489-11504

  Escabi, Monty A ^a,d   Miller, Lee M ^b   Read, Heather L ^a   Schreiner, Christoph E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast; Inferior colliculus; Modulation depth; Mutual information; Natural sounds; Reverse correlation; Spectrotemporal

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAT; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MESENCEPHALON; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND PRESSURE; SPEECH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 0347694861     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-37-11489.2003     Document Type: Article

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