Facilitatory mechanisms underlying selectivity for the direction and rate of frequency modulated sweeps in the auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 39, 2008, Pages 9806-9816

  Razak, Khaleel A ^a,b   Fuzessery, Zoltan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Combination sensitivity; Facilitation; FM sweeps; Rebound from inhibition; Sideband inhibition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY CORTEX; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; FACILITATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; TUNING CURVE; VISUAL SYSTEM; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN MAPPING; CYTOLOGY; HEARING; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SOUND DETECTION; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN MAPPING; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; NEURONS; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 55749102529     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1293-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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