Learning-induced plasticity in the thalamo-cortical auditory system: Should we move from rate code to temporal code descriptions?

The Auditory Cortex: A Synthesis of Human and Animal Research

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 365-382

  Edeline, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410613066     Document Type: Chapter

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