Reduction of Information Redundancy in the Ascending Auditory Pathway

Neuron

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 359-368

  Chechik, Gal ^a   Anderson, Michael J ^b   Bar Yosef, Omer ^a   Young, Eric D ^b   Tishby, Naftali ^a   Nelken, Israel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSBIO; SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; THALAMUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CATS;

EID: 33746355234     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2006.06.030     Document Type: Article

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