Representation of echo roughness and its relationship to amplitude-modulation processing in the bat auditory midbrain

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2724-2732

  Borina, Frank ^a   Firzlaff, Uwe ^a   Schuller, Gerd ^a   Wiegrebe, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Echolocation; Envelope fluctuation; Hearing; Inferior colliculus; Temporal processing

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HISTOGRAM; LOUDNESS; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULI; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; NEURONS; PITCH PERCEPTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 44649124252     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06247.x     Document Type: Article

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