Detecting modulated signals in modulated noise: (II) neural thresholds in the songbird forebrain

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1979-1994

  Bee, Mark A ^a,b   Buschermöhle, Michael ^b   Klump, Georg M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory grouping; Comodulation detection difference; European starling; Field L2; Within channel processing

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY MASKING; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; AUDITORY THRESHOLD SHIFT; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SONGBIRD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; NOISE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROSENCEPHALON; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SONGBIRDS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34848878045     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05805.x     Document Type: Article

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