Drivers and modulators in the central auditory pathways

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2010, Pages

  Lee, Charles C ^a   Murray Sherman, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Drivers; Inferior colliculus; Medial geniculate body; Modulators; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953768684     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.01.014.2010     Document Type: Article

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