Sensitivity to interaural time differences in the dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus of the unanesthetized rabbit: Comparison with other structures

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1309-1322

  Kuwada, Shigeyuki ^a   Fitzpatrick, Douglas C ^b   Batra, Ranjan ^c   Ostapoff, Ernst Michael ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CDC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; MESENCEPHALON; MONAURAL HEARING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; TIME PERCEPTION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TIME; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RABBITS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 33646015413     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00901.2005     Document Type: Article

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