Frequency response areas of mouse inferior colliculus neurons: II. Critical bands

NeuroReport

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2006, Pages 1783-1786

  Egorova, Marina ^a   Vartanyan, Inna ^a   Ehret, Günter ^b  

^a SECHENOV INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditorymidbrain; Complex sound perception; Critical bandwidth; Frequency resolution; Inferior colliculus; Musical consonance; Noisemasking

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MICE; NEURONS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 33845659637     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000239966.29308.fb     Document Type: Article

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