Encoding of temporal information by timing, rate, and place in cat auditory cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Imaizumi, Kazuo ^a,b   Priebe, Nicholas J ^c   Sharpee, Tatyana O ^d,e   Cheung, Steven W ^a   Schreiner, Christoph E ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; CATS; FEMALE;

EID: 77955391793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011531     Document Type: Article

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