Tonotopy and inhibition in the midbrain inferior colliculus shape spectral resolution of sounds in neural critical bands

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 675-692

  Egorova, Marina ^a   Ehret, Günter ^b  

^a SECHENOV INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory filtering; Complex sound analysis; Inhibitory receptive fields; Mouse; Tonotopic representation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CAT; CELL SHAPE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MESENCEPHALON; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECORDING; SOUND; TONOTOPY; TUNING CURVE;

EID: 49249137304     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06376.x     Document Type: Article

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