Bat echolocation processing using first-spike latency coding

Neural Networks

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1372-1382

  Fontaine, Bertrand ^a   Peremans, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Auditory system; Echolocation; First spike latency

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY NERVES; AUDITORY SYSTEMS; BAT ECHOLOCATION; FIRING RATES; HEAD RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTION; MIDBRAIN; NEURAL ARCHITECTURES; SHORT DURATIONS; SHORT PULSE; TIME INFORMATION; TIME MODEL;

MAMMALS; UNDERWATER AUDITION;

SONAR;

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BAT; BRAIN STEM; COCHLEAR NERVE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LATENT PERIOD; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPIKE; SYNAPSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHIROPTERA; CUES; ECHOLOCATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INFERIOR COLLICULI; INSECTS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 71849110479     PISSN: 08936080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2009.05.002     Document Type: Article

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