Auditory perception vs. recognition: Representation of complex communication sounds in the mouse auditory cortical fields

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1027-1040

  Geissler, Diana B ^a   Ehret, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory perception; Brain mapping; c Fos immunocytochemistry; Left hemisphere dominance; Sound recognition

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECOGNITION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; MICE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 1542269730     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03205.x     Document Type: Article

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