Neural and behavioral discrimination of sound duration by cats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 50, 2009, Pages 15650-15659

  Qin, Ling ^a,b   Liu, Yongchun ^a   Wang, JingYu ^a   Li, ShuNan ^a   Sato, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE FUNCTION; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; SPIKE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CATS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); NEURONS; PITCH DISCRIMINATION; SOUND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 72449170562     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2442-09.2009     Document Type: Article

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