Passive soma facilitates submillisecond coincidence detection in the owl's auditory system

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 2267-2282

  Ashida, Go ^a   Abe, Kousuke ^a   Funabiki, Kazuo ^a,b   Konishi, Masakazu ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOWL; HEARING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STRIGIFORMES; SYNAPSES; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 33947203252     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00399.2006     Document Type: Article

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