Evaluating information transfer between auditory cortical neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 2533-2543

  Gourévitch, Boris ^a   Eggermont, Jos J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CELL; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CATS; ENTROPY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT;

EID: 33947110329     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01106.2006     Document Type: Article

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