What is reflected in auditory cortex activity: Properties of sound stimuli or what the brain does with them?

The Auditory Cortex: A Synthesis of Human and Animal Research

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 383-408

  Scheich, Henning ^a   Ohl, Frank W ^a   Schulze, Holger ^a   Hess, Andreas ^b   Brechmann, André ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410613066     Document Type: Chapter

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