Stimulus-invariant processing and spectrotemporal reverse correlation in primary auditory cortex

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 111-136

  Klein, David J ^a,d   Simon, Jonathan Z ^a,b   Depireux, Didier A ^a,c   Shamma, Shihab A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

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

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Ferret; Modulation transfer function; Ripple; Singular value decomposition; Spectrotemporal receptive field; Variability

Indexed keywords

FOURIER SERIES; MODULATION; WHITE NOISE;

AUDITORY CORTEX; DESCRIPTORS; FERRET; FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION; RECEPTIVE FIELDS; REVERSE CORRELATIONS; RIPPLE; SINGLE CELLS; SPECTROTEMPORAL RECEPTIVE FIELD; VARIABILITY;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RELIABILITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 33646507039     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-005-3589-4     Document Type: Article

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