Neural responses to free field and virtual acoustic stimulation in the inferior colliculus of the guinea pig

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 3014-3029

  Behrend, Oliver ^a,b   Dickson, Benjamin ^a   Clarke, Elizabeth ^a,c   Jin, Craig ^a   Carlile, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FREE FIELD; GUINEA PIG; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIMULATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; VIRTUAL AUDITORY SPACE; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HEARING; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; GUINEA PIGS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 14844303574     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00402.2004     Document Type: Article

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