Spectral composition of concurrent noise affects neuronal sensitivity to interaural time differences of tones in the dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2705-2715

  Siveke, Ida ^a   Leibold, Christian ^a,b   Grothe, Benedikt ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BINAURAL HEARING; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN NUCLEUS; FEMALE; LATERAL LEMNISCUS DORSAL NUCLEUS; MALE; MONAURAL HEARING; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN STEM; CUES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NOISE; REACTION TIME; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 36248982661     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00275.2007     Document Type: Article

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