Population coding of interaural time differences in gerbils and barn owls

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 35, 2010, Pages 11696-11702

  Lesica, Nicholas A ^a,b   Lingner, Andrea ^a   Grothe, Benedikt ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GERBIL; HEARING; MALE; OWL; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOUND DETECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGING; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; MALE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRIGIFORMES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77956236444     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0846-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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