Dynamic spectrotemporal feature selectivity in the auditory midbrain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 5412-5421

  Lesica, Nicholas A ^a,b   Grothe, Benedikt ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory; Inferior colliculus; Receptive field; Response prediction; Stimulus intensity; Subcortical

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEA; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GERBIL; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPECTROTEMPORAL RECEPTIVE FIELD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIATION RESPONSE; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; GERBILLINAE; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 45849149648     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0073-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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