Neural modulation tuning characteristics scale to efficiently encode natural sound statistics

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 47, 2010, Pages 15969-15980

  Rodríguez, Francisco A ^a   Chen, Chen ^b   Read, Heather L ^a   Escabí, Monty A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOUND; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EID: 78649405226     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0966-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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