Binaural unmasking of frequency-following responses in rat amygdala

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1647-1659

  Du, Yi ^a   Huang, Qiang ^a   Wu, Xihong ^a   Galbraith, Gary C ^b   Li, Ang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BINAURAL HEARING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DRUG EFFECT; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; METHODOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SPECTROSCOPY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; KYNURENIC ACID;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; KYNURENIC ACID; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 64749093558     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.91055.2008     Document Type: Article

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