Processing of modulated sounds in the zebra finch auditory midbrain: Responses to noise, frequency sweeps, and sinusoidal amplitude modulations

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1143-1157

  Woolley, Sarah M N ^a   Casseday, John H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; FOWL; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEUROMODULATION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPIKE; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FINCHES; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NOISE; SOUND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23044460063     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01064.2004     Document Type: Article

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