Effects of reverberation on the directional sensitivity of auditory neurons across the tonotopic axis: Influences of interaural time and level differences

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 7826-7837

  Devore, Sasha ^a,b,c   Delgutte, Bertrand ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BINAURAL HEARING; COCHLEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION KINETICS; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; TONOTOPY; VIBRATION SENSE; WAVEFORM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CUES; EAR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INFERIOR COLLICULI; NEURONS; RABBITS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953500569     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5517-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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