Cat's behavioral sensitivity and cortical spatiotemporal responses to the sweep direction of frequency-modulated tones

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 315-325

  Zhang, Xinan ^a,b   Qin, Ling ^a,b   Liu, Yongchun ^a   Dong, Chao ^a   Sato, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Frequency modulation; Primary auditory cortex; Spatiotemporal representation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LATENT PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CATS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

EID: 78650414361     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.10.034     Document Type: Article

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