Modulation power and phase spectrum of natural sounds enhance neural encoding performed by single auditory neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 41, 2004, Pages 9201-9211

  Hsu, Anne ^a   Woolley, Sarah M N ^a   Fremouw, Thane E ^a   Theunissen, Frédéric E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Birdsong; CM; Complex sounds; Field L; Information; Mld

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NERVE FUNCTION; NEURAL ENCODING; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SONGBIRD; SOUND DETECTION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; SPIKE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; ENTROPY; FINCHES; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 5644293072     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2449-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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