Functional groups in the avian auditory system

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2780-2793

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

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOREBRAIN; FOWL; HEARING; INHERITANCE; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PITCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RHYTHM; SONGBIRD; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPECTROTEMPORAL RECEPTIVE FIELD; TUNING CURVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COGNITION; CUES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINCHES; HEARING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON;

EID: 63849169094     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2042-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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