Auditory Cortex: Representation through Sparsification?

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Willmore, Ben D B ^a   King, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HEARING; MARMOSET; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; SHORT SURVEY; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CALLITHRIX; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; WAKEFULNESS;

MARMOSETS;

EID: 72449170588     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.11.003     Document Type: Short Survey

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