Spectrotemporal receptive fields in the inferior colliculus revealing selectivity for spectral motion in conspecific vocalizations

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 4882-4893

  Andoni, Sari ^a   Li, Na ^a   Pollak, George D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Conspecific calls; Direction selectivity; FM sweep; Inferior colliculus; Inhibition; Inseparability; Spectrotemporal receptive field; Velocity tuning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE AUDIOMETRY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; TUNING CURVE; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; CHIROPTERA; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NEURONS; PITCH PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 34247863915     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4342-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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