Over-representation of species-specific vocalizations in the awake mouse inferior colliculus

Neuroscience

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 486-500

  Portfors, C V ^a   Roberts, P D ^b   Jonson, K ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cochlear distortion; complex sounds; frequency tuning; hearing; neural coding; ultrasonic

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TUNING CURVE; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COCHLEA; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; NEURONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 67649380336     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.04.056     Document Type: Article

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