Responses of neurons in primary auditory cortex (A1) to pure tones in the halothane-anesthetized cat

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3756-3769

  Moshitch, Dina ^a   Las, Liora ^a   Ulanovsky, Nachum ^a,c   Bar Yosef, Omer ^a,d   Nelken, Israel ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RESPONSE VARIABLE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TUNING CURVE; VISUAL CORTEX; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; CATS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HALOTHANE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33744903391     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00822.2005     Document Type: Article

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