First spike latency code for interaural phase difference discrimination in the guinea pig inferior colliculus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 25, 2011, Pages 9192-9204

  Zohar, Oran ^a   Shackleton, Trevor M ^b   Nelken, Israel ^c,d   Palmer, Alan R ^b   Shamir, Maoz ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST SPIKE LATENCY; GUINEA PIG; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; INTERAURAL PHASE DIFFERENCE DISCRIMINATION; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SOUND DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; INFERIOR COLLICULI; MALE; NEURONS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79959643916     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6193-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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