Temporal codes for amplitude contrast in auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 767-784

  Malone, Brian J ^a   Scott, Brian H ^a,b   Semple, Malcolm N ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN CORTEX; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MACACA; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPIKE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BRAIN MAPPING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NEURONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 74949135745     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4170-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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