Enhancement of ITD coding within the initial stages of the auditory pathway

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 38-46

  Pecka, Michael ^a,b   Siveke, Ida ^a   Grothe, Benedikt ^a,b   Lesica, Nicholas A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; BINAURAL HEARING; CODING; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GERBIL; INFORMATION; INTERAURAL TIME DISCRIMINATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIKE WAVE; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; TUNING CURVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN STEM; EAR; GERBILLINAE; INFORMATION THEORY; NEURONS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 74049114151     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00628.2009     Document Type: Article

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