Interaction of excitatory and inhibitory frequency-receptive fields in determining fundamental frequency sensitivity of primary auditory cortex neurons in awake cats

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1371-1383

  Qin, Ling ^a   Sakai, Masashi ^a   Chimoto, Sohei ^a   Sato, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Neural mechanism; Pitch chroma; Pitch height; Spectral cue

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; NERVE POTENTIAL; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STIMULUS; TONOTOPY; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; CATS; CUES; NEURONS; PITCH PERCEPTION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 23944482681     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhi019     Document Type: Article

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