A physiological model for the stimulus dependence of first-spike latency of auditory-nerve fibers

Brain Research

Volumn 1220, Issue , 2008, Pages 208-223

  Neubauer, Heinrich ^a   Heil, Peter ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absolute threshold; Hair cell; Ribbon synapse; Spike timing; Spontaneous activity; Temporal integration

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CAT; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; COCHLEAR NERVE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 48949119364     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.08.081     Document Type: Article

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