Tuning to interaural time difference and frequency differs between the auditory arcopallium and the external nucleus of the inferior colliculus

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2348-2361

  Vonderschen, Katrin ^a   Wagner, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NUCLEUS; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INFERIOR COLLICULI; NEURONS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; STRIGIFORMES; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 65649087176     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.91196.2008     Document Type: Article

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