Cortical processing of dynamic sound envelope transitions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 49, 2010, Pages 16741-16754

  Zhou, Yi ^a   Wang, Xiaoqin ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; WAKEFULNESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CALLITHRIX; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REACTION TIME; SOUND; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 78650063299     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2016-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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