Responses of dorsal cochlear nucleus neurons to signals in the presence of modulated maskers

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 5789-5797

  Neuert, Veronika ^a   Verhey, Jesko L ^b   Winter, Ian M ^a  

^a PHYSIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory brainstem; Auditory scene analysis; Comodulation masking release; Response map; Single unit; Wideband inhibition

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATED PURE TONE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY BRAIN STEM; AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEA DORSAL NUCLEUS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; COMODULATION MASKING RELEASE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GUINEA PIG; MASKING; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE SIGNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RESPONSE MAP; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SOUND; SPIKE; WIDEBAND INHIBITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; GUINEA PIGS; NEURONS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS;

EID: 3042855586     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0450-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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