Estimated cochlear delays in low best-frequency neurons in the barn owl cannot explain coding of interaural time difference

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1946-1954

  Singheiser, Martin ^a   Fischer, Brian J ^b,c   Wagner, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COCHLEAR DELAY; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INTERAURAL TIME DISCRIMINATION; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; OWL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STEREAUSIS MODEL; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; COCHLEA; FEMALE; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; STRIGIFORMES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77957834684     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00501.2010     Document Type: Article

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