Preservation of spectrotemporal tuning between the nucleus laminaris and the inferior colliculus of the barn owl

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 3544-3553

  Christianson, G Björn ^a,c   Peña, José Luis ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIRD; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MAMMAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SOUND; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; HEARING; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NEURONS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; STRIGIFORMES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34447301295     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01162.2006     Document Type: Article

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