Spectral and temporal processing in rat posterior auditory cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 301-314

  Pandya, Pritesh K ^a   Rathbun, Daniel L ^b   Moucha, Raluca ^b   Engineer, Navzer D ^b   Kilgard, Michael P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical coding; Frequency modulation; Neural information processing; Nonprimary cortex; Repetition rate transfer function; Temporal integration; Tonotopic organization

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PITCH PERCEPTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 38849085182     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm055     Document Type: Article

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