Top-down gain control of the auditory space map by gaze control circuitry in the barn owl

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7074, 2006, Pages 336-339

  Winkowski, Daniel E ^a   Knudsen, Eric I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; GAIN CONTROL; NEUROLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AUDITORY SPACE MAPS; GAZE CONTROL; PSYCHOPHYSICAL SENSITIVITY;

AUDITION;

BIRD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; GAZE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALIA; STRIGIFORMES; TYTO ALBA; TYTONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 31144441349     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04411     Document Type: Article

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