A neuronal correlate of the precedence effect is associated with spatial selectivity in the barn owl's auditory midbrain

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2051-2070

  Spitzer, Matthew W ^a,b   Bala, Avinash D S ^a   Takahashi, Terry T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ACOUSTICS; ADOLESCENT; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BARN OWL; BRAIN MAPPING; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MASKING; MESENCEPHALON; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRECEDENCE EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPATIAL SELECTIVITY; TEMPORAL SYMETRIC EFFECT; TEMPORALLY ASYMMETRIC SUPPRESSION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; ROC CURVE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRIGIFORMES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 4644301308     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01235.2003     Document Type: Article

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