Linearity of Cortical Receptive Fields Measured with Natural Sounds

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1089-1100

  Machens, Christian K ^a   Wehr, Michael S ^a   Zador, Anthony M ^a  

^a WM Keck Structural Biology Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Natural stimuli; Neural code; Patch clamp; Reverse correlation; Whole cell

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOUND INTENSITY; SPECTROTEMPORAL RECEPTIVE FIELD; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0842304135     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4445-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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