A possible role for a paralemniscal auditory pathway in the coding of slow temporal information

Hearing Research

Volumn 272, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 125-134

  Abrams, Daniel A ^a   Nicol, Trent ^a   Zecker, Steven ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; MALE; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PARALEMNISCAL AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 79751531560     PISSN: 03785955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2010.10.009     Document Type: Article

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