Frequency-invariant representation of interaural time differences in mammals

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Lüling, Hannes ^a,b   Siveke, Ida ^a   Grothe, Benedikt ^a,b   Leibold, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Munich   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CODING; DECODING;

BRAINSTEM; FREQUENCY INVARIANT; INTERAURAL TIME DIFFERENCES; INVARIANT REPRESENTATION; LOW-FREQUENCY SOUNDS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NEURONAL POPULATIONS; RATE RESPONSE; SINGLE CELLS; STIMULUS FREQUENCY;

NEURONS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY LATERALIZATION; AUDITORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; CLASSIFIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT SELECTION; GERBIL; INTERAURAL TIME DISCRIMINATION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND INTENSITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN STEM; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

MAMMALIA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY, BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; GERBILLINAE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79953650800     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002013     Document Type: Article

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