Differential patterns of inputs create functional zones in central nucleus of inferior colliculus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 40, 2010, Pages 13396-13408

  Loftus, William C ^a   Bishop, Deborah C ^a   Oliver, Douglas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORO GOLD; TRACER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CAT; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; IONTOPHORESIS; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MEDIAL LEMNISCUS; MONAURAL HEARING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR OLIVARY NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AXONAL TRANSPORT; BRAIN STEM; CATS; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INFERIOR COLLICULI; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; PITCH PERCEPTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77957732002     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0338-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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