Interactions between stimulus-specific adaptation and visual auditory integration in the forebrain of the barn owl

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 6991-6998

  Reches, Amit ^a   Netser, Shai ^a   Gutfreund, Yoram ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY RESPONSE; FOREBRAIN; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SPACE; STIMULUS SPECIFIC ADAPTATION; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSENCEPHALON; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRIGIFORMES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77952592550     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5723-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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