Response linearity in primary auditory cortex of the ferret

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 572, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 763-773

  Ahmed, Bashir ^a   Garcia Lazaro, Jose A ^a   Schnupp, Jan W H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CALCULATION; CELL COUNT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERRET; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HISTOGRAM; LINEAR SYSTEM; MODULATION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; VISUAL CORTEX; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; FEMALE; MUSTELA PUTORIUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; RIPPLE DENSITY; RIPPLE VELOCITY; SPIKE WAVE; STRIATE CORTEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FERRETS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33645824382     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.104380     Document Type: Article

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