Responses of cochlear nucleus neurons to harmonic and mistuned complex tones

Hearing Research

Volumn 238, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 39-48

  Sinex, Donal G ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory scene analysis; Chinchilla; Cochlear nucleus; Complex sounds; Spectral segregation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CHINCHILLA; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40849114988     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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