The auditory cortex of the bat Phyllostomus discolor: Localization and organization of basic response properties

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hoffmann, Susanne ^a   Firzlaff, Uwe ^a   Radtke Schuller, Susanne ^a   Schwellnus, Britta ^a   Schuller, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; EVOKED RESPONSE AUDIOMETRY; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLLOSTOMUS DISCOLOR; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RESPONSE TIME; SPIKE WAVE; ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDIOMETRY, PURE-TONE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN MAPPING; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE;

EID: 48249094237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-9-65     Document Type: Article

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