Sensitivity to interaural time difference and representation of azimuth in central nucleus of inferior colliculus in the barn owl

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 99-112

  Bremen, Peter ^a,b   Poganiatz, Iris ^a   Von Campenhausen, Mark ^a   Wagner, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auditory streaming; Auditory system; Interaural time disparity; Sound localization; Virtual stimuli

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; ORIENTATION; OWL; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SOUND DETECTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; ORIENTATION; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRIGIFORMES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846076146     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-006-0172-z     Document Type: Article

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