Synaptic mechanisms of direction selectivity in primary auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1861-1868

  Ye, Chang Quan ^a   Poo, Mu Ming ^a,b   Dan, Yang ^b   Zhang, Xiao Hui ^a,c  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CELL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPIKE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PITCH PERCEPTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 76149145043     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3088-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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