Cortical responses to object size-dependent spectral interference patterns in echolocating bats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2747-2755

  Firzlaff, Uwe ^a   Schuller, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Electrophysiology; Object recognition; Phyllostomus discolor

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLOWER; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CHIROPTERA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ECHOLOCATION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 36148981838     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05930.x     Document Type: Article

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