Global versus local processing of frequency-modulated tones in gerbils: An animal model of lateralized auditory cortex functions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 6753-6758

  Wetzel, Wolfram ^a   Ohl, Frank W ^a,b   Scheich, Henning ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Lateralization; Rodents

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GERBIL; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; HEARING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; GERBILLINAE; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; GERBILLINAE; MODELS, ANIMAL;

EID: 44349106376     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0707844105     Document Type: Article

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