Interdependent encoding of pitch, timbre, and spatial location in auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2064-2075

  Bizley, Jennifer K ^a   Walker, Kerry M M ^a   Silverman, Bernard W ^a   King, Andrew J ^a   Schnupp, Jan W H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Hearing; Localization; Parallel; Sound; Spike trains; Tuning; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FERRET; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS; VOWEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FERRETS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; ORIENTATION; PITCH PERCEPTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 60849086474     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4755-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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