Population coding of tone stimuli in auditory cortex: Dynamic rate vector analysis

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1767-1778

  Bartho, Peter ^a,b   Curto, Carina ^a   Luczak, Artur ^a   Marguet, Stephan L ^a   Harris, Kenneth D ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Auditory cortex; Rat; Sustained response; Temporal coding

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE; SPIKE WAVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURONS; PITCH PERCEPTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350774229     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06954.x     Document Type: Article

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