Reassessing mechanisms of low-frequency sound localisation

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 457-460

  Palmer, Alan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

IC; ILD; inferior colliculus; interaural level difference; interaural time difference; ITD; medial superior olive; MSO

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE RECEPTOR;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; AUDITORY CORTEX; BASILAR MEMBRANE; BRAIN STEM; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL POPULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEMISPHERE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MESENCEPHALON; MOLECULAR MODEL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND PRESSURE; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MODELS, ANIMAL; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 4043092728     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2004.06.001     Document Type: Review

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