Analyzing variability in neural responses to complex natural sounds in the awake songbird

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3147-3157

  Graña, Gilberto David ^a,b   Billimoria, Cyrus P ^a,b   Sen, Kamal ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SONGBIRD; SOUND; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SONGBIRDS; SOUND; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 66349094329     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90917.2008     Document Type: Article

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