Auditory and multisensory responses in the tectofugal pathway of the barn owl

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 30, 2009, Pages 9602-9613

  Reches, Amit ^a   Gutfreund, Yoram ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM; BRAIN NERVE CELL; FOREBRAIN; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EAR; MICROELECTRODES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSENCEPHALON; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRIGIFORMES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 68049147007     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6117-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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