Neural coding of echo-envelope disparities in echolocating bats

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 197, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 561-569

  Borina, Frank ^a   Firzlaff, Uwe ^a,b   Wiegrebe, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Echolocation; ITD; Roughness; Sensory systems; Spatial hearing

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; ECHOLOCATION; HISTOLOGY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; INFERIOR COLLICULI; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 79955074221     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-010-0571-z     Document Type: Article

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