Effects of stimulus azimuth and intensity on the single-neuron activity in the auditory cortex of the alert macaque monkey

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3323-3337

  Woods, Timothy M ^a,c   Lopez, Steve E ^a   Long, James H ^a   Rahman, Joanne E ^a   Recanzone, Gregg H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Harker School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALERTNESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EYE POSITION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MACACA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 33751529503     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00392.2006     Document Type: Article

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