The synaptic representation of sound source location in auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 45, 2009, Pages 14127-14135

  Chadderton, Paul ^a,b   Agapiou, John P ^a,b,d   McAlpine, David ^a,b   Margrie, Troy W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACOUSTICS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; IN VIVO STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RECORDING; RELIABILITY; SOUND DETECTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; INTERNEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70449635981     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2061-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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