The sonar aperture and its neural representation in bats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 43, 2011, Pages 15618-15627

  Heinrich, Melina ^a,b   Warmbold, Alexander ^a   Hoffmann, Susanne ^a   Firzlaff, Uwe ^c   Wiegrebe, Lutz ^a  

^a Division of Neurobiology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BAT; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAR; ECHOLOCATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PHYLLOSTOMUS DISCOLOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SONAR APERTURE; SOUND INTENSITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHIROPTERA; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 80054925508     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2600-11.2011     Document Type: Article

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