Neural mechanisms underlying selectivity for the rate and direction of frequency-modulated sweeps in the auditory cortex of the pallid bat

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1303-1319

  Razak, Khaleel A ^a   Fuzessery, Zoltan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BAT; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; CHIROPTERA; KINETICS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748520550     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00020.2006     Document Type: Article

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