Sensitivity to interaural correlation of single neurons in the inferior colliculus of guinea pigs

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 244-259

  Shackleton, Trevor M ^a   Arnott, Robert H ^a   Palmer, Alan R ^a  

^a MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binaural; Discrimination threshold; Guinea pig; Inferior colliculus; Interaural correlation; Jnd

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GUINEA PIG; HEARING ACUITY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GUINEA PIGS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 33644855366     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-005-0005-8     Document Type: Article

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