Millisecond encoding precision of auditory cortex neurons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 39, 2010, Pages 16976-16981

  Kayser, Christoph ^a   Logothetis, Nikos K ^a,b   Panzeri, Stefano ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hearing; Mutual information; Natural sounds; Neural code; Spike timing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SOUND; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL;

PRIMATES;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78049247493     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012656107     Document Type: Article

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