Tuning for spectro-temporal modulations as a mechanism for auditory discrimination of natural sounds

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1371-1379

  Woolley, Sarah M N ^a   Fremouw, Thane E ^a   Hsu, Anne ^a   Theunissen, Frédéric E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FINCHES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 27744521439     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1536     Document Type: Article

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