Interaural phase difference modulates the neural activity in the nucleus angularis and improves the processing of level difference cue in the lateral lemniscal nucleus in the chicken

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 198-212

  Sato, Tatsuo ^a   Fukui, Iwao ^a   Ohmori, Harunori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interaural level difference; Interaural phase difference; Sound localization

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERAURAL LEVEL DIFFERENCE; INTERAURAL PHASE DIFFERENCE; LATERAL LEMNISCAL NUCLEUS; MIDDLE EAR; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ANGULARIS; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN STEM; CHICKENS; CUES; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEURONS; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 74249122728     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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