Invariance and sensitivity to intensity in neural discrimination of natural sounds

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 6304-6308

  Billimoria, Cyrus P ^a,b   Kraus, Benjamin J ^a,b   Narayan, Rajiv ^a,b   Maddox, Ross K ^a,b   Sen, Kamal ^a,b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Birdsong; Field L; Recognition; Speech; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FINCH; HEARING; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; SPIKE WAVE; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FINCHES; MALE; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SOUND; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 46749109186     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0961-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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