Representation of tone in fluctuating maskers in the ascending auditory system

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1503-1513

  Las, Liora ^a,b   Stern, Edward A ^c   Nelken, Israel ^a,b  

^a Edmund Safra Campus ^*  (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Auditory thalamus; Cat; Comodulation masking release; Inferior colliculus; Physiology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; CAT; HEARING; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MEDIAL GENICULATE BODY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; GENICULATE BODIES; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 13844254729     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4007-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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