Contribution of inhibition to stimulus selectivity in primary auditory cortex of awake primates

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 7314-7325

  Sadagopan, Srivatsun ^a,b   Wang, Xiaoqin ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LATENT PERIOD; MARMOSET; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORY STIMULATION; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CALLITHRIX; ECHOLOCATION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PITCH PERCEPTION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 77953059492     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5072-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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