Sensitivity to interaural time differences in the inferior colliculus with bilateral cochlear implants

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 25, 2007, Pages 6740-6750

  Smith, Zachary M ^a,b,c   Delgutte, Bertrand ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaural hearing; Cochlear implant; Electric stimulation; Inferior colliculus; ITD; Neural prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CAT; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULUS; TUNING CURVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34250862626     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0052-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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