Encoding of virtual acoustic space stimuli by neurons in ferret primary auditory cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3489-3503

  Mrsic Flogel, Thomas D ^a,b   King, Andrew J ^a   Schnupp, Jan W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIAL; FERRET; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FERRETS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 19344367484     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00748.2004     Document Type: Article

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