Responses in the inferior colliculus of the guinea pig to concurrent harmonic series and the effect of inactivation of descending controls

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2050-2061

  Nakamoto, Kyle T ^a   Shackleton, Trevor M ^a   Palmer, Alan R ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; HISTOLOGY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PITCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 77951226330     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00451.2009     Document Type: Article

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