Responses of neurons in the inferior colliculus to binaural disparities: Insights from the use of Fisher information and mutual information

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 391-404

  Gordon, Noam ^a   Shackleton, Trevor M ^b   Palmer, Alan R ^b   Nelken, Israel ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b MRC INSTITUTE OF HEARING RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory system; Binaural disparities; Fisher information; Guinea pig; Inferior colliculus; Mutual information

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BINAURAL HEARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GUINEA PIG; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; ROC CURVE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GUINEA PIGS; INFERIOR COLLICULI; INFORMATION THEORY; NEURONS; PROBABILITY; ROC CURVE; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 41049085162     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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