Frequency-modulation encoding in the primary auditory cortex of the awake owl monkey

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2182-2195

  Atencio, Craig A ^a,b,c,e   Blake, David T ^a,c,d   Strata, Fabrizio ^a,c   Cheung, Steven W ^c   Merzenich, Michael M ^a,c   Schreiner, Christoph E ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MICROELECTRODE; MONKEY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AOTIDAE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; LINEAR MODELS; NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PITCH PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 35348849068     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00394.2007     Document Type: Article

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