Timing Is Everything: Organization of Timing Circuits in Auditory and Electrical Sensory Systems

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 472, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 131-133

  Carr, Catherine E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; AUDITORY BRAINSTEM; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN STEM; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; ELECTRICAL SENSORY SYSTEM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GIANT SYNAPSE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SYNAPSE; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SENSATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1842615150     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20072     Document Type: Note

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