Beyond timing in the auditory brainstem: intensity coding in the avian cochlear nucleus angularis

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 165, Issue , 2007, Pages 123-133

  MacLeod, Katrina M ^a   Carr, Catherine E ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

auditory nerve; cochlear nucleus; depression; facilitation; interaural intensity difference; short term synaptic plasticity; sound localization

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CORTEX; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN STEM; CELL TYPE; COCHLEA; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS ANGULARIS; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FOWL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE VARIABLE; REVIEW; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; STIMULUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BIRDS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; NEURONS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SYNAPSES; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 34848882160     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(06)65008-5     Document Type: Review

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