Sound representation methods for spectro-temporal receptive field estimation

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-20

  Gill, Patrick ^a   Zhang, Junli ^a   Woolley, Sarah M N ^a   Fremouw, Thane ^a   Theunissen, Frédéric E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Receptive field; Reverse correlation; STRF; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; GAIN CONTROL; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS;

AUDITORY CORTEX; FIELD MODEL; FREQUENCY SPACING; RECEPTIVE FIELDS; REVERSE CORRELATIONS; SPECTRO-TEMPORAL RECEPTIVE FIELD; TIME FREQUENCY; TIME-FREQUENCY REPRESENTATIONS; ZEBRA FINCH;

NEURONS;

ALGORITHM; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; HEARING; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; MUSIC; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SOUND; SOUND PRESSURE; WAVEFORM; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

EID: 33745824228     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-006-7059-4     Document Type: Article

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