Enhanced temporal response properties of anteroventral cochlear nucleus neurons to broadband noise

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1560-1570

  Louage, Dries H G ^a   Van Der Heijden, Marcel ^a   Joris, Philip X ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Auditory nerve; Autocorrelation; Bushy cells; Noise; Phase locking; Synchronization; Ventral cochlear nucleus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPIKE; TIME PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANESTHETICS, GENERAL; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BARBITURATES; CATS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NOISE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 13844255952     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4742-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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