Activity of primary auditory neurons in the cochlear ganglion of the emu Dromaius novaehollandiae: Spontaneous discharge, frequency tuning, and phase locking

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1560-1573

  Manley, Geoffrey A ^b   Köppl, Christine ^b   Yates, Graeme K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHICKEN; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HAIR CELL; HISTOGRAM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SOUND PRESSURE; TUNING CURVE;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BIRDS; COCHLEA; GANGLIA; OTOACOUSTIC EMISSIONS, SPONTANEOUS; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 1842366060     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418273     Document Type: Article

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