Neuronal activation times to simple, complex, and natural sounds in cat primary and nonprimary auditory cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1166-1178

  Carrasco, Andres ^a   Lomber, Stephen G ^a  

^a WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conspecific vocalizations; Cortical circuitry; Extracellular recording; Frequency modulated sweeps; Latency measures; Stream of activation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CAT; CELL ACTIVATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY; RESPONSE TIME; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CATS; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; SOUND; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 80052556524     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00940.2010     Document Type: Article

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