The effects of interaural time difference and intensity on the coding of low-frequency sounds in the mammalian midbrain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3821-3827

  Horvath, Domonkos ^a,b,c   Lesica, Nicholas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b PÁZMÁNY PÉTER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERBIL; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GERBILLINAE; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MALE; NEURONS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 79952424836     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4806-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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