The representation of amplitude modulations in the mammalian auditory midbrain

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1602-1609

  Krebs, Bjarne ^a   Lesica, Nicholas A ^b,c   Grothe, Benedikt ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY SYSTEM; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GERBIL; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; GERBILLINAE; INFERIOR COLLICULI; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 57349125655     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90374.2008     Document Type: Article

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