What's that sound? Auditory area CLM encodes stimulus surprise, not intensity or intensity changes

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2809-2820

  Gill, Patrick ^a   Woolley, Sarah M N ^a,b   Fremouw, Thane ^a,c   Theunissen, Frédéric E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URETHAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CAUDAL LATERAL MESOPALLIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; HEARING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FINCHES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PROBABILITY; PROSENCEPHALON; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SOUND; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 57049109923     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01270.2007     Document Type: Article

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