Heterogeneous neuronal responses to frequency-modulated tones in the primary auditory cortex of awake cats

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1622-1634

  Qin, Ling ^a,b   Wang, Jingyu ^a   Sato, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RELIABILITY; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 57349177544     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90364.2008     Document Type: Article

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