Virtual vocalization stimuli for investigating neural representations of species-specific vocalizations

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1244-1262

  DiMattina, Christopher ^a   Wang, Xiaoqin ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; MARMOSET; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES COMPARISON; STIMULUS; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CALLITHRIX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; MALE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33644861388     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00818.2005     Document Type: Article

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