Reverberation Challenges the Temporal Representation of the Pitch of Complex Sounds

Neuron

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 789-801

  Sayles, Mark ^a   Winter, Ian M ^a  

^a PHYSIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HUMDISEASE; SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; GUINEA PIG; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; NONHUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEEDBACK; GUINEA PIGS; NEURONS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44649176982     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.03.029     Document Type: Article

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