Emergence of multiplicative auditory responses in the midbrain of the barn owl

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1181-1193

  Fischer, Brian J ^a   Peña, José Luis ^b   Konishi, Masakazu ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; MESENCEPHALON; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; STRIGIFORMES; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 34548811941     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00370.2007     Document Type: Article

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